Women Working
Our cover story this month is another good example of just how contradictory Vietnam can be. It doesn’t take long to realise how important women are to the country and how much sway they have over Vietnamese society. We profile five such women who are representative of how many women are moving from home to the workplace. We cover a wide range of jobs, from a martial artist to an economist, that show how much women are impacting the growth of the country.
At first glance, it could look like the lack of women’s rights in Vietnam is a non-issue. There are, after all, more women in the workplace here than in most other countries in the world. But at the same time the glass ceiling has barely cracked. Domestic violence, sexism and the gender pay gap, for instance, continue to plague Vietnamese women, but they, like those in our story, don’t let this stand in the way of their dreams.
