HÀ NỘI — Gender inequality in ethnic minorities is seen in different fields, including economy, labour, education, training and healthcare. This was the result of the survey on the socio-economic situation of 53 ethnic minority groups in Việt Nam in 2015 from the gender perspective. The results were announced at a workshop held on Tuesday in Hà Nội. The survey was conducted by the General Statistics Office. It is, so far, the largest national survey on ethnic minority groups. Under the survey, 86.3 per cent of male ethnic minorities are literate whereas the rate of female literacy is only 73.4 per cent. For several ethnic minority groups such as Mông, Hà Nhì and La Hủ, the rate of literacy in females is especially low, at 33 per cent, 35 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively. The rate of early marriage in ethnic minority girls is higher than boys. In the under-16 age group, the number of girls getting married is three or four times higher than boys. As many as 74 per cent of ethnic minority families have men undersigned in land, credit and house ownership. Nearly 40 per cent of ethnic minority women bear their children at home, thus the… Read full this story
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