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Gender and employment in labor market from theoretical approaches

Gender equality indexes from a human development perspective

Gender mainstreaming in family studies: theoretical and practical issues

Facing the fact that gender studies have been formed and gender mainstreaming has taken place in every programs and actions of socio-economic development, family studies may hardly be gender-neutral or inconsistently integrate gender issues without gendermainstreaming. Studying a family-one of the most important institutions of society-this field should actively and consciously integrate gender issues in its subject matter as gender mainstreaming in society. Only by doing this could family studies perform positive functions for the advancement of women toward gender equality. The extent of gender mainstreaming in family studies, however, would depend largely on the researcher's gender capacities including gender, knowledge and attitudes and commitment to gender-responsive action.

Land management and land use of K'Tu women

The article introduces findings of a qualitative study from 2003 to 2004 with analysis on land management and land use of K'Tu women in Hong Ha commune, A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province. Based on local land use history, actual status and practices in Hong Ha commune, it is denoted that the regulation to register the name of only the head of the household, mostly men, for confirmation of land use right and grant of land use certificates has constrained safe access of women to land use. Moreover, the tradition of men dignification that has been deeply rooted in the mind of both men and women, added with insufficient concerns of local authority, deters K'Tu women from the right to final decision-making even though they have enjoyed the right to control over some kinds of land. The right to final decision-making keeps holding to men's privilege, resulting in modest status of women in land use.

Marriage between Vietnamese women and Taiwanese men-some emerging issues

For recent years, there emerges an increasing trend of alien marriage between Vietnamese women and foreign men, particularly Taiwanese in Southern provinces and cities. Based on secondary literature analysis, the author points to the fact that most cases of marriage to Taiwanese men is for economic or just outbound sake. Those Vietnamese brides prepare nothing in terms of psychology as well as language, customs, culture and practices of the alien countries of the brooms. Accordingly, despites economic interests for their families at home, they face a number of difficulties in Taiwan, namely inharmoniousness with the husbands' families, domestic violence, lack of legislative supports in case of divorce and victimization in trafficking. At the same time, those marriages create burning questions of local labor resources and sex disbalance in the brides' areas of origin, gender inequality in families of destination and future of mixed-blood Vietnamese children in foreign countries and Vietnam today.

Practices of pregnancy care and giving name to newlyborn babies of Red Dao ethnic group in Lao Cai