Gender Roles in Vietnam
Change, continuity and gender roles in Vietnam In detail, discuss how the gender roles of women and men in Vietnam have changed and continued over time and the causes of these changes. In addition outline how these changing gender roles have affected the status of both men and women in Vietnam.
Vietnam is a country where gender roles are undergoing vast changes, especially the women’s status in the public spheres, which includes their educational attainment, earnings, occupational status, job mobility, and political representation. Throughout the last four decades, gender division has also massively differed in the subject of household labour. In the 20th Century, Vietnam underwent structural transformation, including military mobilisation, periods of socialist collectivisation, and decades of continuous wars, severe economic stagnations, and marketing liberalisation. Meanwhile in the South of Vietnam, they had greater access to information and perspectives from the West through several decades causing implications upon marriage and family for the Vietnamese people. Likewise, the different historical trajectories between North and South Vietnam affected the extent to wives and husbands in these two regions, sharing unpaid domestic tasks. Due to the unpaid household labour, it affected the trends of determinants of gender division of household labour towards the contributions of wives and husbands, including household budget management, routine household chores, and childrearing tasks for preschool and early school age children. Existing research has shown that Vietnam has one of the world’s highest rates of female economic participation. The spouse is expected to be either unemployed or does small amount of work to pay to contribute towards more housework. Using information from an article named Inside Story – Two faces of gender equity in Vietnam it speaks about how Vietnamese women are expected to be a housewife due to their cultural beliefs and
Vietnam is a country where gender roles are undergoing vast changes, especially the women’s status in the public spheres, which includes their educational attainment, earnings, occupational status, job mobility, and political representation. Throughout the last four decades, gender division has also massively differed in the subject of household labour. In the 20th Century, Vietnam underwent structural transformation, including military mobilisation, periods of socialist collectivisation, and decades of continuous wars, severe economic stagnations, and marketing liberalisation. Meanwhile in the South of Vietnam, they had greater access to information and perspectives from the West through several decades causing implications upon marriage and family for the Vietnamese people. Likewise, the different historical trajectories between North and South Vietnam affected the extent to wives and husbands in these two regions, sharing unpaid domestic tasks. Due to the unpaid household labour, it affected the trends of determinants of gender division of household labour towards the contributions of wives and husbands, including household budget management, routine household chores, and childrearing tasks for preschool and early school age children. Existing research has shown that Vietnam has one of the world’s highest rates of female economic participation. The spouse is expected to be either unemployed or does small amount of work to pay to contribute towards more housework. Using information from an article named Inside Story – Two faces of gender equity in Vietnam it speaks about how Vietnamese women are expected to be a housewife due to their cultural beliefs and