Draft Law On Gender Equality Attracts Attention Of Community

摘要

With the building of the Law on Gender Equality, Vietnam is showing efforts to build a progressive society, ensuring equality between men and women in social interests and responsibilities. However, it is very important for the law to take effect and become a useful tool to protect gender equality. How will women - the centre of the gender equality issue - be treated in the family and society? Today women can study and work in many of the same fields as men, but have they received the support and favourable conditions from their families and the community to enjoy their interests and complete their responsibilities? Therefore, from a point of view of the family, the draft law has progressive points, including the equality between men and women in income generation. It is gender inequality when men are considered as the main person in the family to generate income and women are considered to be in charge of housework. At present, women can find good jobs with high incomes. To that end, they need family responsibility share from men. Taking care of the family and children is the responsibility of both men and women. Men are entitled to have 15 paternity leave.