Moderator : Thái Thị Ngọc Dư, Former Founder and Dean of the Faculty of Women's Studies at HCM City Open University
Gender studies in Ho Chi Minh City universities : from pilot project to sustainable development. With the establishment of the Women's Studies Department at Ho Chi Minh City Open University in 1992, gender training was officially introduced into the university curriculum. Despite difficulties such as the reluctance of decision-makers in education, prejudice and misunderstanding towards the discipline on the part of society and employers, reluctance on the part of students who are very concerned about job opportunities, and insufficient research on gender specificities in Vietnam. Since 2000, the sociology of gender lecture has been a compulsory part of the national sociology degree program. After thirty years of existence at university, gender studies are experiencing relatively sustained development only in sociology courses.
Doctor of the third cycle in Geography, former head of the Women's Studies Department at Ho Chi Minh City Open University. Alongside teaching, I carried out research on the situation of Vietnamese women, on social problems in Viet Nam's cities. Retired since 2017.
