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Choosing life partner of rural youth today (case study: Yen Thuong commune, Gia Lam, Hanoi): The article is mentiond about the social perception believes that getting married is indispensable to the human life. In the year of 2003, a study was conducted in Yen Thuong, a commune located at the suburb area of Hanoi that was undergoing impacts of the industrialization and urbanization. From a sociological perspective and with support of a variety of research methods including qualitative analysis, in-depth interview and participatory observation, an analysis has been made on the relationship between social changes and marriage models in Yen Thuong today.
Contradictions and conflicts on young families through a survey: The article is introduced findings from an investigation on the frequency and the severity of domestic contradictions and conflicts; forms of domestic contradictions and conflicts and the fields in which contradictions and conflicts often take place in young families. The investigation is conducted through a sociological study at 4 wards of Ba Dinh districts, Hanoi city from March to May 2003. With regard to the research methodology, in-depth interviews and questionnaires were applied. There were 10 cases of in-depth interviews to collect qualitative information and 300 questionnaires for an equal proportion of males and females.
Dealing with spousal disputes on property in divorce: The article touched upon a social problem that is increasingly growing in number of cases and complex in substance, i.e. divorce with spousal disputes on property. Given the laws in force on spousal property and property division in case of divorce, the author provided analysis on difficulties in implementation and application of the laws in practice of dealing with spousal disputes on property in divorce. Shortcomings and constraints were examined from perspectives of authorized bodies, persons concerned and regulations of the Law on Family and Marriage. Some recommendations were made for the sake of bettering legal foundations for the realization of rights and obligations to property of spouses, and making contribution to stabilizing spousal and domestic relations.
Difficulties and challenges to female researchers of Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences
Domestic helpers and their influences to the family in the socio-economic renovation period: Domestic helpers today are almost poor women with few schoolings coming from the countryside. Many studies on them stem from an assumption that when families are unable to undertake all housework, hiring domestic helpers is an acceptable measure for this crisis; the point is how to improve their living, working condition and income. This article examines the phenomenon of hiring domestic helpers from another perspective: impacts of hiring domestic helpers on the owners. The author analyzed positive and negative impacts regarding gender relations and gender equality and argued that in the context of the housework crisis, it is wise not to consider hiring domestic helpers as the sole solution but it needs further measures.
Employment impacts on family life of female reporters
Family and pre-school child rearing at home today
Gender and Women's employment
Gender equality: Awareness and practice in child care: The article introduced research findings of the project "Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice of Child Development of Child Nursers" conducted by Research Department of the Vietnam Women's Union in collaboration with Research Center of Public Health in 2002. Through local semi-structural and in-depth interviews in addition to questionnaires to those who takes the charge of child care, it came to light that there remained lots of biased gender conceptions in the mind of the child nursers, including parents, grandparents, teachers, elder brothers and sisters. Gender inequality is outstanding in their conceptions, vividly demonstrated in the way they care and educate the children, particularly in intrahousehold resource allocation, norms of what boys and girls should and should not do, orientation and permission for what the children could do or play by sex. That was identified to stem from the conceptions of lineage, gender roles and identities as well as public influence. Remarkably, most of those involved in tlie child care and rearing work have not realized the adverse impacts of the biased gender conceptions and practices on the children's sentimental and spiritual life as well as their physical and psychological development, which has a part in the existence of gender prejudices in future generations.
Gender, poverty reduction and development in mountainous areas: On the basis of research findings in the 2003 participatory poverty assessment and data of the 2002 household living standard survey, the author analyzed the relationship between gender and poverty, which are major constraints of the moutainous development today. She also introduced foundations for the building of poverty reduction and gender equality measures in an effort to assure their comprehensive and systematic attributes for the sake of expansion of opportunities improvement of accessibility to services reduction of risks and empowerment of women.
Getting married to foreigners through match-maker agencies in Vietnam today: At present, the phenomenon of getting married to foreigners, particularly Taiwanese, through matchmaker agencies is all acting great attention from the society. Such match-making activities are commercialized, exerting adverse impacts on the honor and dignity of Vietnamese women and seriously violating the Law on Family and marriage. As a social consequence of this phenomenon, not a few Vietnamese women become victims of domestic violence, prostitution and trafficking in women. Many women are driven to homelessness and forced to do humble jobs. Based on analysis of relevant articles collected since 2000 to present, this article sheds more light on the actual status of the phenomenon of getting married to foreigners through match-maker agencies, legal perspectives to this issue and undertaken measures to prevent commercialized match-making activities for alien marriages.
Impacts of agricultural extension on rice production of female headed housholds
Implementation of the Labor Code for female workers: The article describes major issues concerning female labor's interests in the implementation of the labor code for workers of textile, garment, leather and shoe enterprises, i.e. the important and leading industries in the field of export which use a large number of female workers. Given the data acquired from studies in several industrial enterprises in 2002, the article provides an in-depth analysis on the implementation of the labor code for female labor in terms of recruitment, probation and labor contract; work time and break; salary, bonus and income.
Oriental and western cultural impacts on Vietnamese women's status in history: Vietnamese women's status in history is an issue of many researchers' interest and it is subjected to various ideas. Dang presumed that in Vietnamese history, despite early introduction of Confucianism, Vietnamese women held important position in the society due to their great contributions to production and fights against foreign aggression and that was undeniable by the old Vietnam's feudal states. However, given the Confucianism, the Vietnamese women's status was still constrained to certain extent. That was the reason for the appearance of movements for women's rights and emancipation in Vietnam early in the twentieth century. At first, under the dominance of the French colonialism and influence of the bourgeois democratic ideology, some urban women's groups raised voice to claim freedom and equality and fought against improper feudal rites. Later then, under the leadership of the Communist Party, Vietnamese women in various walks of life actively participated in the people's national democratic and the socialist revolutions.
Practice of reproductive health care of the Dao people in Yen Bai province
Prevention of behavioral deviations of adolescents from the view of family education
Regarding criteria of modern women
Some issues on marriage and childbirth of Lo Lo ethnic group in the northern mountainous areas
Status of women and men in today land inheritance and land use: Equality in land inheritance and land use in Vietnam is guaranteed by land policies of the State. However, many studies showed that women's status remained lower than men's in respect of access to and cotroll over land under adverse impacts of current institutions, practices and shortcomings of the land policies. A case study was conducted in Mat village, Van Mieu commune, Thanh Son district, Phu Tho province in application of qualitative method such as in-depth interviews, group discussion and observation together with a survey using questionnaires for 30 per cent of the total local households. Research results pointed to the fact that constraints of women's right to land inheritance and land use are due to the traditional patriarchalism. Besides, women are also restricted by unpredicted shortcomings that emerge in local implementations of the land policies. Yet, there is no denying the fact that women have got opportunities to improve their status as a result of interaction between the 1993 land transfer policy and establishment of some local institutions. Reality in Mat village suggested that, as heading to equality in land inheritance and land use, policy admministrators and makers should take into account the interaction between State's policies and local practices.
Thai women's role in preservation and maintenance of ethnic cultural values: The ethnic group of Thai is among those who are persisting on keeping its own traditional cultural identities. Not only contributing to forming the cultural identities, Thai women also are preservers, transmitters and developers of the Thai ethnic cultural values. Based on the information gathered from the Thai ethnic group in the northwestern region, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces, the author gives an insight into this role of Thai women in the material, social and spiritual life of their ethnic group.
The abuse of women's image in TV advertisement: Thanks to lively, quick accessibility and ample capacity of presentation, advertising on television is becoming an effective mean of communication to popularize products and send messages of producers to consumers. However, besides positive aspects, advertisement on TV is arising problems. A small-scaled study on "The abuse of women's image" on TV advertisement was conducted with three channels VTV1, VTV3 and HTV (Hanoi Television) through March 14-16, 2004. The scrutiny over pictures, language, messages of TV advertisements reveals that the way women appears in advertisements is as like as symbol of sexuality, or otherwise is closely associated with their traditional role signified in gender inequality concepts, that might make false perception on the genuine status and role of Vietnamese women in the modern epoch.
The relationships between husband and wife in the Vietnamese family in renovation period
Vietnamese family today- Some features on the actual status