Title: Women's Education in the Context of Changing Gender Structure in Vietnam - 1960s & 1990sSubmitted by: Ngo Thi Ngan Binh, The National University of SingaporeThe paper presents a major change in the Vietnamese attitudes toward women's formal education by contrasting two ideological trends in two periods: the 1960s and the 1990s. Attitudes toward female education overtime are reflected in the ways Vietnamese society has viewed its ideal bride when it comes to marriage. The impacts of women's education upon their role as a daughter-in-law, therefore, are brought into focus. To illustrate this, the discussion will focus on such factors regarding Vietnamese women's educational pursuit as parental pressure, debates about the advantages and disadvantages of female education and changing social values and judgement. The analysis comes from studying a sample of female residents in Ho Chi Minh City, who grew up in the two periods under study and who have migrated there from a variety of rural and urban locations.
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