More opportunities for women needed, conference hears
Although the proportion of women in leadership roles and management in politics and the economy in Vietnam has increased in recent years, it is still insufficient compared to their potential, Ton Nu Thi Ninh, Vice Chairwoman of Vietnam’s Peace Committee, has said.
She said that Vietnam now has three women in the Politburo.
“How heartening the progress is,” she said, however, adding that the percentage of women in the Party Central Committee still remains only at 10%.
The proportion of female members in the 13th National Assembly is 24.4%, higher than the world average of 22.5%. However, it has declined over the last four terms of the legislature.
The Government should have more policies to give opportunities for women to raise their representative proportion, she said.
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“More women should be in leadership positions to manage the country because they are worthy. Moreover, they have the capacity but they lack one thing. That thing is a chance,” she added.
Ninh said there were already chances in politics, which is why they were focusing to develop leadership and management in the field of economics.
In 2014, 24.9% of enterprise and farm leaders were female, an increase of 0.5% compared to 2013.
Ninh said that women should be given a chance to prove themselves.
Men should be “unbiased” towards women, she said.
The conference, which attracted more than 300 foreign, domestic and enterprise leaders, most of them women, heard discussions about women in technology, innovation and the sciences, as well as talks about leadership capacity training for women and social values for female enterprises.
