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The idea of nationhood in Vietnam was popularized with women through the unity against a common enemy. By uniting against colonists—promoting the idea that the oppression of women was a necessary facet of colonial rule and that only with the overthrow of capitalist systems could women achieve equality, communists had immediate access to the social influences of women in Vietnam. [9]
The Vietnamese women became wives, prostitutes, or slaves. [44] [45] Vietnamese women were viewed in China as "inured to hardship, resigned to their fate, and in addition of very gentle character" so they were wanted as concubines and servants in China and the massive traffick of Tongkinese (North Vietnamese) women to China started in 1875.
There has been an increase in women in the law field from the 1970s to 2010, but the increase has been seen in entry-level jobs. In 2020, 37% of lawyers were female. [3] Women of color are even more underrepresented in the legal profession. [1] In private practice law firms, women make up just 4% of managing partners in the 200 biggest law ...
Abortion in Vietnam is legal until 22 weeks of pregnancy [1] and provided free of charge by the state through Article 44 of the 1989 Public Health Protection Law. [2] Vietnam also has one of the highest rates of abortion that has been surveyed in the world [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and its abortion laws are among the most liberal in Southeast Asia and the world.
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In 1962 during the Vietnam War, Trần Lệ Xuân (aka Madame Nhu), sister-in-law of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm had a costly statue erected in the capital of Saigon in memory of the Trưng sisters, with the facial features modeled on herself, and also established the Women's Solidarity Movement, a female paramilitary ...
The Vietnamese government later appointed her standing vice president of the Vietnam Women's Union. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] She was elected to the fourth (1971–1975), fifth (1975–1976), and sixth (1976–1981) sessions of the National Assembly of Vietnam as a representative of Long An Province, [ 5 ] as well as to the eighth and ninth congresses of the ...
Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 [2] – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief advisor to President Ngô Đình Diệm.