Workshop boosts ASEAN cooperation on gender equality
(VOV) -A two-day regional workshop is transpiring in Ho Chi Minh City through November 20 on measures to further boost regional cooperation to ensure gender equality in the workplace.
Experts share their countries’ experience in making gender equality part of labour laws and examined job opportunities available for women across the region and their average earnings. They also aim to outline measures to promote female role in socio-economic development and to boost collaboration within the bloc on these issues.
Mega Irena, Head of the ASEAN Secretariat’s Social Welfare, Women, Labour and Migrant Workers Division, said all the bloc’s members have adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and other treaties initiated by the International Labour Organisation on the issue. She said more experience sharing is needed to better ensure gender equality in the labour field.
According to Deputy Minister of Labours, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Hong Lan, Vietnam’s Law on Gender Equality stipulates that ensuring equality between men and women must be included in all legal documents.
Mega Irena, Head of the ASEAN Secretariat’s Social Welfare, Women, Labour and Migrant Workers Division, said all the bloc’s members have adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and other treaties initiated by the International Labour Organisation on the issue. She said more experience sharing is needed to better ensure gender equality in the labour field.
According to Deputy Minister of Labours, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Hong Lan, Vietnam’s Law on Gender Equality stipulates that ensuring equality between men and women must be included in all legal documents.