Create a favorable legal environment for women to safely give birth and raise children.

In the context that many localities are facing a sharp decline in birth rates, the challenge is not only in the statistics but also in maintaining population balance, stabilizing family structure and maintaining community vitality.

Overview of the workshop.

On October 22, in Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnam Women's Union coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh City Women's Union to organize a workshop on "Sharing experiences and proposing solutions to encourage increased birth rates in provinces with low birth rates, ensuring maintenance of replacement birth rates".

Speaking at the workshop, Vice President of the Vietnam Women's Union Nguyen Thi Thu Hien emphasized that as a socio -political organization with the function of representing and caring for women of all classes; at the same time actively participating in Party building and state management, the Vietnam Women's Union has proactively implemented many practical activities to contribute to adjusting birth rates and ensuring sustainable population development.

In particular, the association has promoted propaganda through the campaign "Building a family of 5 no's, 3 clean's", the model "Family of 5 yes's, 3 clean's", the movement "Competition to build Vietnamese women of the new era", encouraging women to give birth to 2 children and raise their children well.

At the same time, the association actively participates in giving opinions and criticizing many policies and laws related to the right to give birth, raise children and female labor, aiming to create a favorable legal environment for women to give birth and raise children safely, with special attention to vulnerable groups.

Vice President of Vietnam Women's Union Nguyen Thi Thu Hien spoke at the workshop.

The Vice President of the Vietnam Women's Union also frankly acknowledged that, in the context of a sharp decline in birth rates in some localities, current solutions are still not strong and consistent enough. Therefore, it is necessary to summarize and replicate effective models; at the same time, listen and resolve difficulties at the grassroots level to propose more suitable policies for each region and each group of women.

Sharing at the workshop, comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan, former member of the Politburo, former Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, stated that early education is needed so that students and young people understand the value of family and the value of having children for the survival of the nation and country.

In addition, it is necessary to add to the education program the subject of "Happiness" so that young people are not only educated to become good citizens and workers with good professional skills, but also have the necessary knowledge and skills to make themselves and others happy, know how to raise children, and know how to build and maintain a happy family.

Ms. Dinh Thi Huong, Administrative Director, Chairman of the Trade Union of Phong Thai Rubber Company Limited (Hoa Loi Ward, Ho Chi Minh City) brought practical experiences from her own business in promoting births. Accordingly, her business regularly organizes internal communications about the benefits of having 2 children, support policies of the State and businesses, insurance-maternity regime, in many diverse forms such as skits, short videos, and talks on "Raising children in the 4.0 era".

The company has coordinated with the Women's Union and local health centers to organize free health check-ups, pre-marital check-ups, and reproductive counseling for female employees. In particular, the company reduces working hours for pregnant women and women with children under 12 months, provides flexible working positions, and allows leave to care for sick children without deduction of pay.

"Thanks to these policies, the birth rate within the ideal childbearing age in enterprises is currently relatively high, female workers ensure reasonable birth spacing and mother-child health is focused on," said Ms. Dinh Thi Huong.

Delegates shared at the workshop.

Contributing his opinion at the workshop, Mr. Pham Chanh Trung, Head of the Ho Chi Minh City Population Department, emphasized: "In addition to birth promotion policies, we need to combine many other solutions to create a stronger spread in society."

“We can take advantage of the influence of movies - a gentle, close and easy-to-understand form of communication by promoting movies and programs that honor the image of happy families with 2 children. In addition, communication through channels of influential people, singers or works of art with content that promotes family values ​​and encourages having 2 children will also bring positive effects, spreading widely in the community,” said Mr. Pham Chanh Trung.

In addition, there needs to be inter-sectoral coordination, especially the role of the Women's Union in connecting and promoting policies to support people such as housing policies, personal income tax, etc. to help mobilize and encourage childbirth become more practical and effective.

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