Author: Luong Thu Thuy
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-81-14
Year: 1981
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1984
Examination Committee: Walter E. J. Tips (Chairperson); Karl E. Weber, Hans Detlef Kammeier, Ngoc Phien Huynh, (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: This study attempts to describe the relative monetary and time contribution of Vietnamese married women as compared to their husbands in the household productive efforts in the five peripheral districts of Ho Chi Minh City. It reveals what women think about job opportunity, women’s status, who are the decision maker in the family and who are participating most in the political and government development programs. It also tries to test the correlation between women’s position and their contribution to national development. Comparison is made using the main findings in Kedah State (Malaysia), Northern Samar (Philippines) and Chiang Mai(Thailand) carried out in 1976 and 1977 as well as among the five peripheral districts, wherever possible. Results show that there is no correlation between women’s position and their contribution to national development for the four countries as tested by simple linear regression analysis and using the same criteria. In Vietnam, a correlation is found between commune development and the wife’s time contribution. A multiple regression analysis with the stepwise method reveals that by, using an F-statistic test, there is a weak correlation of the wife’s relative participation in politics (X7) with the wife’s monetary contribution. The priority of each factor’s contribution to the correlation is the following: wife’s relative participation in politics (X7), wife’s relative participation in government development programs (X6), wife’s relative expenditure (X2), wife’s relative mobility (X3), wife’s equality in decision making (X4), wife’s opinion towards equality (X5), and level of development (X1), supposing that the model is valid. There is also a correlation between the level of commune development (X1) and the wife’s time contribution. The F-statistic test shows that the model can include only five predictors and the priority of each factor’s contribution to the correlation is the following: the level of development (X1), wife’s relative mobility (X3), wife’s relative participation
Scholarship Donor(s): The Belgian Government (BADC)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillments of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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