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Viet Nam: Proportion of women engaging in the politics is increasing

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The proportion of women engaging in the politics is increasing, showing the effectiveness of the State and Party’s policies that designed to enhance women’s role in society. According to the Female Parliament Members Group under the Vietnam National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs, between 1999 and now, Vietnam always has a female vice president and women accounted for 25.76 percent in the National Assembly during the 2007-2011 tenure, the highest rate among eight ASEAN countries that have a parliament.

 

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The proportion of women engaging in the politics is increasing, showing the effectiveness of the State and Party’s policies that designed to enhance women’s role in society. According to the Female Parliament Members Group under the Vietnam National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs, between 1999 and now, Vietnam always has a female vice president and women accounted for 25.76 percent in the National Assembly during the 2007-2011 tenure, the highest rate among eight ASEAN countries that have a parliament.

 

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