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AP investigation on treatment of women workers in palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia finds sexual and other forms of abuse.

18 Nov 2020

A 16-year-old girl describes how her boss raped her amid the tall trees on an Indonesian palm oil plantation that feeds into some of the world’s best-known cosmetic brands. He then put an axe to her throat and warned her: “Do not tell.”

At another plantation, a woman named Ola complains of fevers, coughing and nose bleeds after years of spraying dangerous pesticides with no protective gear.

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By Dat Nguyen   November 18, 2020 | 05:30 pm GMT+7 vnexpressVietnamese women work in an office in Hanoi. Photo by Shutterstock/Jimmy Tran.

Gender bias is preventing Vietnamese women from climbing the corporate ladder, a recent study by the International Labor Organization has found.

The survey polled executives and employees at 300 companies of whom 54 percent agreed or strongly agreed that women with equal skills and qualifications as men have greater difficulty reaching top management positions.

Only 15 percent said the top positions in their company were held by women.

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16/10/2020    08:16 GMT+7 vietnamnet

As Vietnam is listed among three countries with the highest rate of sex ratio imbalance at birth, local authorities are making efforts to raise public awareness and tighten regulations to shorten the gap.

Vietnam’s imbalance rate in 2019 was 111.5 boys per 100 girls.

According to the latest report on the world’s population conducted by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Vietnam’s imbalance rate in 2019 was 111.5 boys per 100 girls, behind only China and India – the two most populous countries in the world.

Vietnam has faced a sex ratio imbalance at birth since 2006.

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By Linh Do   October 16, 2020 | 07:50 pm GMT+7Almost all Vietnamese men think they need to be the “shoulders” for women to cry on. Illustration photo by Shutterstock.

Vietnamese men remain patriarchal, smoke and drink a lot, and feel pressured in life, a study by the Institute for Social Development Studies in Hanoi has found.

According to the study, which surveyed 2,567 men aged 18-64 from four representative geographical regions for two years, to be a “true man” in Vietnam still revolves around conservative values such as prioritizing work and career, being able to feed one’s wife and kids as the family’s breadwinner and “pillar”, daring to take risks and challenges, and being physically strong and possess sexual ability.

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vietnamnet 17/08/2020    14:42 GMT+7

The women’s national football team of Vietnam remain at the top place in Southeast Asia although they have dropped three places on the FIFA Women’s World Rankings for August.

Members of the Vietnamese women’s football team celebrate their gold medal at the 29th SEA Games (Photo: VNA)

According to the rankings, the Vietnamese team has gained 1,657 points, standing sixth in Asia and 35th in the world.

Ranked only behind Vietnam in Southeast Asia, Thailand has secured the 7th place in Asia and 39th place worldwide.

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By Minh Nga   July 19, 2020 | 05:24 pm GMT+7 VNExpress

Every year, the long-standing preference for boys in Vietnam’s society terminates 40,800 baby girls before they are born, according to the United Nations Population Fund.

While Vietnam has made progress in reducing gender discrimination over the past several decades, gender-biased sex selection continues to be a widespread practice.

This is an adverse manifestation of the “son preference, which is anything but a benign tradition, a product of gender-biased systems which place higher social status to men and boys, and which favors male over female children,” the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) stated as it released the State of World Population report 2020 in Vietnam last Friday.

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July 15, 2020 Vietnam Insider

A survey found 63 percent of Vietnamese women live with physical, sexual, emotional, economic or behavioral abuse from husbands or partners.

The results came from the second national study on violence against women in Vietnam, conducted last year by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs in collaboration with the General Statistics Office. The first survey was commenced in 2010.

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