women participants of vietnam?
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Vietnamese women make up 50.8 percent of Vietnam's population and some 50 percent of the country's workforce according to the National Committee for the Advancement of Women. Life expectancy is 73 years for Vietnamese women, compared with 71 years for men, the committee said, noting also that each local woman has 2.1 children, lower than the average rate of 2.7 in Southeast Asia. [Source: Xinhua, December 16, 2005]
Women are arguably given more respect in Vietnam than in other countries. Vietnam was once a matriarchy and there are large number of great women heros. Women played a big role in the Vietnam War. They served as combat soldiers and did a lot of the work on the communes, in factories and at home while men were away fighting. Plays and dramas in Vietnam often feature women who stayed loyal to male soldiers while they were fighting. Some Vietnamese women have held high positions of authority. Nguyen Thi. Bình was a Vietnamese communist leader who negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference on behalf of the Viet Cong.
Despite the cultural emphasis on obedience in women, women were not regarded as the weaker sex but as resilient and strongwilled . In the village, women assumed a great deal of responsibility for cultivation of paddy fields, often working harder than men, and sometimes engaged in retail trade of all kinds. A few women owned agricultural estates, factories, and other businesses, and both urban and rural women typically managed the family income. A woman's influence in family affairs could be increased by giving birth to a first male child. In general, though, a woman was expected to be dutiful and respectful toward her husband and his parents, to care for him and his children, and to perform household duties. There were no women in public life. [Source: Library of Congress]