Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits Vietnam Women's Academy

On the occasion of Vietnamese Women's Day (October 20), on the afternoon of October 17, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the Vietnam Women's Academy, met with officials of the Vietnam Women's Union and lecturers, students and trainees of the academy.

Also attending were President of the Vietnam Women's Union Ha Thi Nga; Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son; leaders of central ministries, departments, branches and the Vietnam Women's Union.

Every achievement has an important contribution from women.

Vietnam Women's Academy was established in 2012, inheriting more than 50 years of tradition from the Central Women's Cadre School, training tens of thousands of cadres. With two campuses in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the academy continues to expand its training with 11 multidisciplinary bachelor's majors, 4 master's programs, and 2 doctoral programs.

The Academy always focuses on improving comprehensive capacity, creating opportunities for students to develop both professional and soft skills, and the ability to adapt to the new era.

With over 85% of students being female, the Academy has become a leading provider of female human resources in various fields from social sciences, business, law, journalism to computers and technology. Over 80% of students have jobs immediately after graduation.

The Vietnam Women's Academy carries out the task of training and improving the capacity of cadres. Each year, the academy organizes training for 2,500 to 4,000 union cadres at all levels.

After 12 years, the academy has trained nearly 50,000 cadres; at the same time, it has trained and developed cadres for hundreds of cadres from other countries.

To meet the requirements of the new period, the academy is a pioneer in scientific research; innovates training methods, associated with comprehensive digital transformation; actively participates in community activities and social security.

After visiting the traditional room, the Prime Minister directly experienced a robot practice session with information technology students and visited the practice studio of the Academy's media students.

Speaking at the meeting with officials of the Vietnam Women's Union and lecturers, students and trainees of the academy, on the occasion of Vietnamese Women's Day October 20, on behalf of General Secretary, President To Lam and leaders of the Party and State, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh sent to officials, civil servants, public employees, lecturers and trainees of the Women's Academy, officials of the Women's Union and all Vietnamese women in general his warmest regards and best wishes.

The Prime Minister shared that when visiting the academy and meeting with officials of the Vietnam Women's Union and lecturers, students and trainees of the academy, the Prime Minister felt more motivated and inspired to work and contribute to the cause of protecting and building Vietnam to become more and more powerful and prosperous, and the people to become happier and more prosperous.

Reviewing the nation's arduous struggle, with many pains and losses in the struggle for national independence, as well as the process of overcoming the consequences of war, overcoming the long embargo period, and implementing the renovation process so that "Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position and international prestige as today," Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that throughout that process, Vietnamese women have always played an important role and made great contributions, in addition to their role as wives and mothers in every family.

According to the Prime Minister, women play a very important role in the development of each family, each community, each society, each nation and each ethnic group. In the glorious history of the nation, Vietnamese women have always played a particularly important role, making many great contributions to the process of building and defending the Fatherland.

From the patriotic, indomitable, and indomitable spirit of many predecessors in the past, to the shining examples and noble sacrifices of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers in the struggle for national independence, they have become beautiful symbols of Vietnamese women, worthy of the eight golden words "Heroic, indomitable, loyal, and courageous" that beloved President Ho Chi Minh bestowed upon them.

In particular, he affirmed the position and role of Vietnamese women in the glorious revolutionary cause of our Party and our nation: "The beautiful mountains and rivers of Vietnam are woven and embroidered by our women, young and old, to become more beautiful and brilliant."

According to the Prime Minister, entering the period of innovation, integration and development, our Party and State always pay deep attention to the work of female cadres and gender equality with the consistent viewpoint of ensuring substantive equality between men and women in terms of opportunities, participation and enjoyment in the fields of politics, economics, culture and society.

The Prime Minister said that with the baggage of good and glorious traditions from thousands of years ago, Vietnamese women today are always united, dynamic, creative, "good at national affairs, good at housework", being a solid rear, taking care of the lives of each family, promoting the development of the community and society, and actively participating in building, protecting and developing the country quickly and sustainably.

“Everywhere, in any profession or field of the country, there is the presence and great role, and the tireless and persistent contributions of women,” the Prime Minister affirmed.

Notably, the proportion of female National Assembly deputies for the 2021-2025 term is 30.3%, ranking 64th in the world, 4th in Asia and first in Southeast Asian countries. Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies have female key leaders accounting for 50%. About 20% of Vietnam's small and medium-sized enterprises are owned by women. Vietnam's gender equality index in 2023 ranked 72/146 countries.

“The Vietnam Women's Union - the organization representing the legitimate rights and interests of all classes of Vietnamese women - plays an important role in these successes of Vietnamese women,” the Prime Minister pointed out.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his delight at seeing that the academy has inherited and promoted the development achievements of the Central Women's Cadre School over 60 years; achieving important and impressive achievements.

The scale of staff training is increasing, making an important contribution to improving the capacity of the Women's Union at all levels. The topics of staff training are increasingly rich and diverse, with the core being women's work, gender equality, leadership and management, etc.

The Academy has made strong changes very early in applying information technology and digital transformation to staff training as well as university education, demonstrating dynamism, creativity, innovation, daring to think and dare to do.

The Academy has built and determined to pursue the philosophy of “comprehensive, quality and equal education”, with high identity and humanistic values; promoting an increasingly important role in raising awareness of gender equality as well as training highly qualified human resources in the fields of “Gender and Development” and social work.

The Prime Minister commended and highly appreciated the efforts and achievements of the Vietnam Women's Academy in particular and the Vietnam Women's Union in general, contributing to the cause of women's advancement and affirming the particularly important role of Vietnamese women in the cause of national construction and defense.

Promoting the qualities of Vietnamese women in the era of national development

The Prime Minister said that 60 years ago, at the 1964 "5 Good" Women's Congress, beloved Uncle Ho taught: "Women must enhance their spirit of mastery, strive to study and strive; must eliminate conservative and inferiority thoughts; must develop the spirit of self-reliance and self-reliance" and the 13th Party Congress Document, the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021-2030 clearly defined the task: "Synchronously and comprehensively implement solutions for youth development, gender equality and women's advancement. Gradually reduce the gender gap in the fields of politics, economics, culture, society and family."

Considering that entering a new era - the era of national development, Vietnamese women need to continue to promote their glorious traditions; strive to overcome difficulties and challenges; always unite, join forces, and be of one mind, with qualities, talents, intelligence, and compassion, with a spirit of high determination, and strive together with the whole country to successfully achieve the set goals and tasks of socio-economic development.

In that spirit, the Prime Minister requested the Vietnam Women's Union to continue to practically and effectively implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the resolutions, conclusions and directives of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat, including Directives No. 05, 06 and 21 of the Secretariat on family building, sustainable poverty reduction and women's work in the new situation.

Women's Unions at all levels should increase their proactiveness and creativity, continue to effectively implement the 3 key tasks and 4 groups of solutions set out in the Resolution of the Women's Congress for the 2022-2027 term; continue to pay close attention, direct and support the Vietnam Women's Academy to fulfill its mission well, successfully implement the development goals until 2030 and the vision to 2045 as set out.

For the Vietnam Women's Academy, the Prime Minister requested to continue promoting the good traditions and achievements; closely following the mission and core values: "Solidarity, Dedication, Creativity, Quality;" higher political determination, stronger innovation; constantly being proactive, creative, best completing the development goals and visions set out; focusing on creating differences and unique values ​​of the Vietnam Women's Academy compared to other training institutions.

The Academy must participate more deeply in the process of promoting the implementation of national goals on gender equality and social supervision and criticism; improve the quality of training and fostering female cadres and Association cadres; strengthen connections so that businesses and organizations can participate more, more deeply, and more substantially in the training process at the Academy; support learners to promote their creativity, critical thinking ability, dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility.

Along with that, strengthen international cooperation; promote potential, strengths and affirm prestige and position; focus on solutions to improve training quality to meet market needs in the new context.

The Prime Minister requested that the lecturers of the academy should adhere to the motto: "Taking students as the center and subject - Teachers as the driving force - School as the support - Family as the fulcrum - Society as the foundation;" always be shining examples, creating motivation, inspiration, fostering patriotism, solidarity, and the desire to contribute; and maximizing the qualities and abilities of students.

The Prime Minister hopes that students of the academy will promote their role as the center and the subject - worthy of being the future owners of the country; constantly strive to improve, practice and strive to contribute to the cause of women's development, gender equality in particular and the development of the country in general.

“You should nurture your passion, ambition, and desire to rise up; always persevere and dare to commit; be united, bold, and creative to succeed in your career and life; and proactively contribute to raising awareness among the community, society, and domestic and international friends about the traditions, qualities, intelligence, and identity of Vietnamese women,” the Prime Minister emphasized.

The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches, the Vietnam Women's Union, and Hanoi City to continue to guide and allocate resources to invest in facilities so that the Academy can meet the conditions and standards for a university, serve the training of cadres, civil servants, and public employees, commensurate with the Academy's tasks; research and advise on specific policies in training, fostering, and developing high-quality female human resources to realize the goal of gender equality and Vietnam's commitment to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 on gender equality.

The Prime Minister believes that the glorious tradition, good qualities, kindness, diligence, dynamism, creativity and spirit of contribution and dedication of Vietnamese women will be continuously inherited, nurtured and developed; that tradition and good qualities are the convergence of intelligence, bravery, diligence and boundless sacrifice to nurture love and happiness for each family and community and contribute to society and the country; that tradition and good qualities will forever shine, enriching the cultural identity of Vietnam in the new era, contributing to building our country to be increasingly strong and prosperous, and for the people to have a prosperous and happy life.

On the occasion of Vietnamese Women's Day October 20, the Prime Minister warmly congratulated and wished that Vietnamese women would continuously promote the tradition and qualities of confidence, self-respect, loyalty, responsibility, self-reliance, and aspiration to rise up; continuously contribute their efforts and intelligence to build the homeland and country to become more and more prosperous; continuously strive to become dynamic, creative, daring to think, daring to do women of the new era, spreading affection and warmth in every family, every community, street corner, hamlet, village, creating a beautiful picture rich in the unique identity of Vietnamese women.