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Women in society. The role of women in Vietnam was subject to many changes throughout the history of Vietnam. They have taken on varying roles in society, and the country has seen a number of advances in women's rights, such as an increase in female representation in government, as well as the creation of the Vietnam Women's Union in 1930.
In 1984, the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project was founded by Diane Carlson Evans, leading to the creation of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington D.C. in 1993. [114] [115] The Vietnam Women's Memorial is in Constitution Gardens, a park on the National Mall. [116] [117] It honors the American women who served in the Vietnam War. [118]
The Vietnam Women's Union ( Vietnamese: Hội Liên Hiệp Phụ Nữ Việt Nam, VWU) in Vietnamese, is a socio-political organization that represents and defends the legal and legitimate rights and interests of Women in Vietnam. [1] Originally founded on October 20, 1930, there are currently over 13 million members belonging to 10,472 local ...
e. A woman is an adult female human. [ a][ 2][ 3] Before adulthood, a woman is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent ). [ 4] Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and fertile women are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex ...
The Trưng sisters ( Vietnamese: Hai Bà Trưng, 𠄩婆徵, literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", c. 14 – c. 43) were Luoyue military leaders who ruled for three years after commanding a rebellion of Luoyue tribes and other tribes in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
Da Nang is the largest city in central Vietnam and one of the country's most important ports. The city is surrounded by mountains to the west, and the South China Sea to the east. Da Nang borders Thừa Thiên-Huế Province across the Hải Vân Pass to the north, along with the Quảng Nam Province to the south and west.
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam ( lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011. It is the first state encyclopedia of the ...
Áo dài ( English: / ˈaʊˈdaɪ, ˈɔːˈdaɪ, ˈaʊˈzaɪ /; Vietnamese: [ʔaːw˧˦ zaːj˨˩] ( North), [ʔaːw˦˥ jaːj˨˩] ( South)) [ 1][ 2] is a modernized Vietnamese national garment consisting of a long split tunic worn over silk trousers. It can serve as formalwear for both men and women. Áo translates as shirt [ 3] and dài ...