Forever shining the glorious tradition and good qualities of Vietnamese women

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits the Vietnam Women's Academy, meets with officials of the Vietnam Women's Union and lecturers, students and trainees of the Academy - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Accompanying the Prime Minister were Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, President of the Vietnam Women's Union Ha Thi Nga, leaders of ministries, branches, central agencies and Hanoi city.

The Prime Minister and delegates visited the virtual reality experience area of ​​the traditional room, directly experienced the robot practice session with information technology students and visited the practice studio of the Academy's media students.

Vietnam Women's Academy is a public higher education institution, established in 2012 under the Prime Minister's Decision. The Academy inherits the tradition of the Central Women's Cadre School, training tens of thousands of female cadres over many decades.

With over 85% of students being female, the Academy has become a leading provider of female human resources for various fields. Over 80% of students are employed immediately after graduation. Over the past 3 years, the Vietnam Women's Academy has maintained an impressive research record with an average of 20 grassroots-level projects, 5 ministerial-level projects, and 3 projects funded by NAFOSTED each year.

The Academy also innovates training methods associated with comprehensive and modern digital transformation; actively participates in community activities. Every year, thousands of students and lecturers participate in social projects, contributing to spreading the spirit of responsibility and creating positive impacts in society.

The Prime Minister commended and highly appreciated the efforts and achievements of the Vietnam Women's Academy and the Vietnam Women's Union, contributing to the cause of women's advancement and affirming the particularly important role of Vietnamese women in the cause of national construction and defense - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Every achievement has an important contribution from women.

Speaking at the meeting, on the occasion of Vietnamese Women's Day, on behalf of General Secretary, President To Lam and leaders of the Party and State, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh cordially sent to the collective leaders, cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers of the Vietnam Women's Academy in particular, the Vietnam Women's Union and all Vietnamese women in general, my respectful greetings, warm regards, and best wishes.

Reviewing the nation's arduous struggle, with many pains and losses in the struggle for national independence and reunification, as well as the process of overcoming the consequences of war, overcoming the long embargo period, and implementing the renovation process so that "Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position and international prestige as today", the Prime Minister emphasized that women play an extremely important role in the development of each family, each community, society and each nation and ethnic group. In the glorious history of the nation, Vietnamese women have always played a particularly important role, making many great contributions to the process of building and defending the Fatherland.

"From the spirit of patriotism, indomitability, and indomitable spirit with the typical images of Ba Trung, Ba Trieu and many other predecessors in the past, to the shining examples of female revolutionaries Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Vo Thi Sau, Nguyen Thi Dinh, Nguyen Thi Chien, Vo Thi Thang... and the noble sacrifice of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers in the struggle for national independence have become beautiful symbols of Vietnamese women, worthy of the eight golden words "Heroic, indomitable, loyal, and courageous" that beloved President Ho Chi Minh bestowed upon them," the Prime Minister said.

The Head of Government emphasized: The Party's and beloved Uncle Ho's viewpoint of "men and women's equality" was determined right in the Party's first Platform in 1930. Uncle Ho always cared about and highly appreciated the role of women and once advised: "Talking about women means talking about half of society. If we do not liberate women, we will not liberate half of humanity. If we do not liberate women, we will only build half of socialism."

In particular, he affirmed the position and role of Vietnamese women in the glorious revolutionary cause of our Party and our nation: "The beautiful mountains and rivers of Vietnam are woven and embroidered by our women, young and old, to make them more beautiful and brilliant."

The Prime Minister emphasized that entering a new era - the era of national advancement, Vietnamese women need to continue to further promote their glorious traditions, join hands with the whole country to strive to successfully implement the set socio-economic development goals and tasks - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Entering the period of innovation, integration and development, our Party and State always pay deep attention to the work of female cadres and gender equality with the consistent viewpoint of ensuring substantive equality between men and women in terms of opportunities, participation and enjoyment in the fields of politics, economics, culture and society.

The Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress determined: "Promoting the tradition, potential, strengths, and spirit of mastery and aspiration of women of all classes. Building Vietnamese women of the new era. Improving the quality of female human resources, meeting the requirements of sustainable development and international integration".

Many important policies, strategies and guidelines for women's development have been issued and effectively implemented by the Party and State, contributing to promoting the role and creating an environment for Vietnamese women to develop, increasingly affirm their position and contribute to society.

With the baggage of a good and glorious tradition from thousands of years ago, Vietnamese women today are always united, dynamic, creative, "good at national affairs, good at housework", both being a solid rear, taking care of the lives of each family, promoting the development of the community and society, and actively participating in building, protecting and developing the country quickly and sustainably.

"It can be said that anywhere, in any profession or field of the country, there is the presence and great role, and the tireless and persistent contributions of women," the head of the Government emphasized.

In particular, policies on gender equality and women's development in recent times have created an environment for women to increasingly affirm their position and have more opportunities to contribute to society; awareness of the role and position of women, women's work and gender equality has changed positively and achieved important results, recognized and highly appreciated by the United Nations and the international community.

The proportion of female National Assembly deputies for the 2021-2025 term is 30.3%, ranking 64th in the world, 4th in Asia and first in Southeast Asian countries. Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies have female key leaders accounting for 50%. About 20% of small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam are owned by women. Vietnam's gender equality index in 2023 ranked 72/146 countries, up 11 places compared to 2022.

The Prime Minister pointed out that the Vietnam Women's Union - an organization representing the legitimate rights and interests of all classes of Vietnamese women - plays an important role in the successes of Vietnamese women; striving for the development of women and gender equality.

President of the Vietnam Women's Union Ha Thi Nga speaks at the meeting - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Established very early (October 20, 1930), from its predecessor, the Women's Liberation Association, through different periods with different names, the Vietnam Women's Union has always strived and developed over the past 90 years, becoming a large, widespread, comprehensive socio-political organization, mobilizing and gathering a large number of women from all walks of life to actively participate, creating motivation and inspiration for the political system, directly contributing to the cause of national construction, development and defense.

The Prime Minister was delighted to see that the Vietnam Women's Academy - a place to train and foster cadres of the Women's Union at all levels, cadres working on women's affairs, female cadres for the political system, and the only place in Vietnam to provide university training in "Gender and Development", has inherited and promoted the development achievements of more than 60 years of the Central Women's Cadre School; achieving important and very impressive achievements.

Accordingly, the scale of cadre training is increasing, making an important contribution to improving the capacity of the Women's Union at all levels. The topics of training for cadres are increasingly rich and diverse, with the core being women's work, gender equality, leadership and management, etc.

In the 12 years since its establishment, the total number of Association and female cadres trained and fostered by the Academy has reached nearly 48 thousand; especially nearly 300 cadres from Laos and Cambodia have been trained.

The Academy has made strong changes very early in applying information technology and digital transformation to staff training as well as university education, demonstrating dynamism, creativity, innovation, daring to think and dare to do.

Since 2014, the Academy has begun applying the online learning system to staff training, with the development of nearly 100 electronic lectures provided on an online platform; helping to shorten direct learning time and allow more learners.

The Academy has built and determined to pursue the philosophy of "comprehensive, quality and equal education", bearing noble identity and humanistic values; promoting an increasingly important role in raising awareness of gender equality as well as training highly qualified human resources in the fields of "Gender and Development" and social work.

Over the past 10 years, the Academy has organized training in a specific field of study on "Gender and Development", integrating at least one gender subject into most of its fields of study. At the same time, it is determined to develop to become one of the two universities in Vietnam that offers training at all three levels: undergraduate, master's and doctoral in social work.

On behalf of the Government, the Prime Minister commended and highly appreciated the efforts and achievements of the Vietnam Women's Academy in particular and the Vietnam Women's Union in general, contributing to the cause of women's advancement and affirming the particularly important role of Vietnamese women in the cause of national construction and defense.

The Prime Minister and delegates visited the virtual reality experience area of ​​the traditional room of the Women's Academy - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

The Prime Minister and delegates experience a robot practice session with information technology students and visit the practice studio of media students at the Women's Academy - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Creating a beautiful, rich picture of Vietnamese women

The Prime Minister recalled that 60 years ago, at the "5 Good" Women's Festival in 1964, beloved Uncle Ho taught: "Women must enhance their spirit of mastery, strive to study and strive; must eliminate conservative and inferiority thoughts; must develop a spirit of self-reliance and self-reliance."

In the 13th Party Congress Document, the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021-2030 clearly defines the task: "Synchronously and comprehensively implement solutions for youth development, gender equality and women's advancement. Gradually reduce the gender gap in the political, economic, cultural, social and family fields".

The Prime Minister emphasized that entering a new era - the era of national development, Vietnamese women need to continue to promote their glorious traditions; strive to overcome difficulties and challenges; always unite, join hands, and be of one mind, with qualities, talents, intelligence, and compassion, with a spirit of high determination, and strive together with the whole country to successfully achieve the set socio-economic development goals and tasks.

With that spirit, the Prime Minister requested the Vietnam Women's Union, relevant ministries, localities and the Vietnam Women's Academy to focus on implementing a number of contents well.

To the Vietnam Women's Union , the Prime Minister proposed continuing to practically and effectively implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolutions, Conclusions and Directives of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat, including Directives No. 05, 06 and 21 of the Secretariat on family building, sustainable poverty reduction and women's work in the new situation.

Women's Unions at all levels should increase their proactiveness and creativity, continue to effectively implement the three key tasks and four groups of solutions set forth in the Resolution of the Women's Congress for the 2022-2027 term.

Along with that, continue to pay close attention, direct and support the Vietnam Women's Academy to fulfill its mission well, successfully implement the development goals until 2030 and the vision to 2045 as set out.

For the Vietnam Women's Academy , the Prime Minister suggested continuing to promote the good traditions and achievements; closely following the mission and core values: "Solidarity; Dedication; Creativity; Quality".

Higher political determination, stronger innovation; constantly proactive, creative, successfully completing the development goals and visions set out; focusing on creating differences and unique values ​​of the Vietnam Women's Academy compared to other training institutions.

Participate more deeply in the process of promoting the implementation of national goals on gender equality and social supervision and criticism; improve the quality of training and fostering of female cadres and Union cadres.

Strengthen connections so that businesses and organizations can participate more deeply and substantially in the training process at the Academy; support learners to develop their creativity, critical thinking ability, dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility.

Strengthen international cooperation; promote potential, strengths and affirm prestige and position; focus on solutions to improve training quality to meet market needs in the new context.

The Prime Minister hopes that the students of the Academy will promote their role as the center and the main subject - worthy of being the future owners of the country - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

The Prime Minister requested that teachers of the Academy adhere to the motto: "Taking students as the center and subject - teachers as the driving force - schools as the support - families as the fulcrum - society as the foundation"; always be shining examples, creating motivation, inspiration, fostering patriotism, solidarity, and aspiration for dedication; and maximizing the qualities and abilities of students.

The Prime Minister hopes that the students of the Academy will promote their role as the center and the subject - worthy of being the future owners of the country; constantly strive to improve, practice and strive to contribute to the cause of women's development, gender equality in particular and the development of the country in general.

"You should nurture your passion, ambition, and desire to rise up; always persevere, dare to commit; unite, be bold, and be creative to succeed in your career and life. You should always proactively fight for gender equality, promote the spirit of self-reliance, self-reliance, and contribute to raising awareness of the community, society, and domestic and international friends about the traditions, qualities, intelligence, and identity of Vietnamese women," the Prime Minister advised.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministries of Education and Training, Science and Technology, Planning and Investment, Construction, Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Home Affairs and People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to closely coordinate with the Vietnam Women's Union to continue guiding and allocating resources to invest in facilities so that the Academy meets the conditions and standards for higher education institutions, serving the training of cadres, civil servants and public employees. Research and advise on specific policies in training, fostering and developing high-quality female human resources to realize the goal of gender equality and Vietnam's commitment to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 on gender equality.

The Prime Minister firmly believes that the glorious tradition, good qualities, kindness, diligence, dynamism, creativity and spirit of contribution and dedication of Vietnamese women will be continuously inherited, nurtured and developed - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

The Prime Minister suggested that Hanoi City, together with the Ministry of Construction, the Vietnam Women's Union and the Academy, research a location to develop the Academy to a more worthy level, with better space for research, innovation, and physical training. Currently, there are many policies for women and the Academy that are being integrated into general policies. It is necessary to continue researching specific mechanisms and policies.

The Prime Minister firmly believes that the glorious tradition, good qualities, kindness, diligence, dynamism, creativity and spirit of contribution and dedication of Vietnamese women will be continuously inherited, nurtured and developed.

"That tradition and good qualities are the convergence of intelligence, bravery, diligence, and boundless sacrifice to nurture love and happiness for each family and community and contribute to society and the country. That tradition and good qualities will forever shine, be the driving force, enrich the cultural identity of the Vietnamese people in the new era, contributing to building our country to be increasingly strong and prosperous, and for the people to have a prosperous and happy life.

On the occasion of Vietnamese Women's Day October 20, we warmly congratulate and hope that Vietnamese women will continuously promote the traditions and qualities of confidence, self-respect, loyalty, heroism, indomitability, responsibility, self-reliance, self-improvement, and aspiration to rise up; constantly contribute their efforts and intelligence to build the homeland and country to become more and more prosperous.

"Let's constantly strive to become dynamic, creative, daring women of the new era, daring to think, daring to do, daring to take responsibility, spreading love and warmth in every family, every community, street corner, hamlet, village, creating a beautiful picture, rich in the unique identity of heroic Vietnamese women," the Prime Minister said.

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