Policies of gender equality implemented in uniform

Gender equality in Binh Duong has always been paid attention to and implemented synchronously by Party committees and authorities at all levels. Thereby, the role and position of women is increasingly affirmed to make important contribution to building happy families and ensuring good social security.

Many gender equality seminars are organized at all levels to enhance women's role in family and society

To disseminate gender equality to every household

In 2022 and the first 9 months of 2023, the province will continue to promote propaganda activities and disseminate policies and laws on gender equality and the advancement of women. Departments, branches, unions and localities carry out many propaganda activities and disseminate regulations on gender equality to each household.

Every year, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA) advises the provincial People's Committee to organize the Month of Action for gender equality and prevention and response to gender-based violence, including activities of ceremony for gender equality and preventing and responding to gender-based violence. Talks on gender equality at all levels with thousands of attendees are launched and organized.

In 2022, the department implemented and distributed 53,100 propaganda leaflets to prevent and respond to gender-based violence to collaborators and people in areas and hamlets, continue to maintain the activities of models promoting gender equality with 27 gender equality clubs, 9 trusted addresses in 9 districts, towns and cities, 2 models of preventing and responding to violence in the world. Gender facilities in Bau Bang and Bac Tan Uyen districts, community shelter model in Thu Dau Mot city are models guided by the department in building and allocating operating funds for dissemination, consultation, and readiness to provide support services to people and victims of gender-based violence.

Le Thi Chien, an official of Tan Hung commune, Bau Bang district, said: "Implementing the direction of all levels on gender equality, Tan Hung commune has up to 20 members participating in the local Gender Equality Club. These are elderly people who actively participate in reconciliation, advocacy, building happy families, and building new rural areas. When a family has a problem, they are immediately there to help with everything. In addition, the commune regularly integrates talks on gender equality at meetings in wards and hamlets, provide typical examples of economic building, happy families. It can be said that gender equality in Tan Hung commune has had many changes as the role and position of women greatly improved compared to before."

Talking to us, Nguyen Ngoc Hang, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that in addition to coordinating throughout the implementation of gender equality with departments, branches and localities, the Gender Equality Action Month is a highlight to attract attention, promote the role, responsibility and proactive participation of individuals, families, communities, agencies and organizations in ensuring social security and enhancing the empowerment of women and children, to promote gender equality, prevent and respond to violence and abuse of women and children. Thereon, the activities have raised awareness of self-protection and boldly expressed criticism and condemnation of acts of violence, creating a good living environment.

Diverse forms of propaganda

To make gender equality in the area more and more effective, departments and branches have continued to promote propaganda in accordance with their functions and tasks, bringing high efficiency. The provincial Police has organized dozens of propaganda and legal education classes in the fields of drug prevention, traffic safety, online crime prevention, and sexual abuse prevention among children. The Department of Justice provides comments and evaluates legal documents in accordance with the provisions of Article 21 of the Law on Gender Equality on integrating gender equality issues in the development of legal documents and other related documents; thereby, the contents contribute to improving state management of gender equality, and at the same time review current legal documents to promptly amend, supplement, cancel and promulgate new ones. Legal documents to ensure gender equality in the field of industry management.

The provincial Trade Union continues to direct trade unions at all levels to guide the implementation of gender equality work, organize many communication activities on gender equality and gender-based violence prevention, support female workers with reproductive health care services, propagate regimes, policies, and laws to female workers. Nguyen Ngoc Hang added, to improve effective capacity as a result of gender equality work, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs coordinated to organize professional training on gender equality and prevention and response to gender-based violence programs in 2022 for more than 1,600 members of the Committee for the Advancement of women at district and commune levels and collaborators in wards and hamlets in the province. This is an annual activity to implement new plans and policies for those working on gender equality and for the advancement of women at district and commune levels and guide collaborators to widely propagate. for people in the community. The Department also coordinated to organize gender equality propaganda classes for hundreds of ethnic minorities.

To implement the goals of the national strategy on gender equality, the province has issued a plan to implement the national strategy on gender equality and implement a program to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in 2021-2025. From the specifically proposed plans and programs, the province has achieved positive results on gender equality in the area. The number of key female leaders in Party agencies, socio-political organizations, and State agencies has 30% of the workforce being female, reaching a rate of 23.86%. As for female leaders and managers in state agencies, there are 314 women among 1,024 leaders, reaching a rate of 30.66%. The number of People's Committees at all levels with key female leaders reached 48.51%.

Reported by Quang Tam – Translated by Vi Bao