THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 19/2002/QD-TTg
Hanoi, January 21, 2002
 
DECISION
RATIFYING THE NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF VIETNAMESE WOMEN TILL 2010
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of December 25, 2001;
At the proposal of the Chairperson of the National Committee for Advancement of Vietnamese Women,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To ratify the national strategy for advancement of Vietnamese women till 2010 with the following major contents:
1. The strategy’s objectives:
a/ General objectives:
To raise the quality of women’s material and spiritual life. To create all conditions for the effective exercise of women’s fundamental rights as well as for the promotion of their role in all political, economic, cultural and social domains.
b/ Specific objectives:
- Objective 1: To exercise women’s rights to equality in the field of labor and employment.
+ Target 1: Annually, of the total number of new job-receivers, the percentage of female laborers shall increase gradually to reach 40% by 2005 and 50% by 2010.
+ Target 2: To increase the laboring time-use rate of female laborers in rural areas to 75% by 2005 and 80% by 2010.
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