The Prime Minister requested related agencies to revise all policies for women within their competence to ensure a better life for female workers in industrial parks, especially policies on houses, kindergartens, schools so that women can feel secure at the workplace.
HCM City has obtained significant progress in gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in the last five years, Nguyen Trong Dam, deputy minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said at a conference held on Friday in HCM City.
Key finding report of Results of Vietnam Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2014 showed that 11.1 percent of Vietnamese women aged from 20 to 49 get married before their 18th birthday.
