The reform rural construction - the observation from Nam Dinh women’s roles in economic development

Abstract

This article sums up the results of the assessment of the women’s roles
about the economic development from the reform rural program in Nam
Dinh province, through evaluation of actual state for the level of production
women’s participation in the rural areas; their roles in expansions of
agriculture production, industry, handicraft and small and medium business.
These were important products to contribute to propose the solutions to
enhance the roles of women in the provincial reform rural construction. To
archieve the objectives, the study used some main methods: collecting the
secondary document; sociological survey; statistical analyzing, synthesizing
and evaluating; holding workshops and experts’ consultation. This research
shows that women have an indispensable role in rural economic
development (their rate of 51.37% of total labor; participating in cultivation
from 40% to 64% and livestock from 40 - 59%; vocational training about
37.1%, in which mainly trained under one month (59.6%); directly
managing business actions with the lower percentage (27.03%). Howerever,
these activities still indicate the gender inequality and their participations
are also passive and not sustainable.