VN lacks gender equality strategy: experts
It is fairly common that women are forbidden from going near shrimp farms in several southern provinces because they are believed to bring bad luck. Rooted in this superstition is the notion that shrimp farming is a man’s job. Thus it was that Huỳnh Thị Ly, a resident of Sóc Trăng Province’s Mỹ Xuyên District, took care of household chores while her husband raised shrimps, pigs and buffalos by himself. “The heavy workload sometimes irritated him, so we fought a lot,” Ly said. Things started to change in 2014, when Ly and her husband started attending ‘group meetings’ within a gender equality joint-project implemented by an international community empowerment organisation and an NGO working to alleviate poverty.
