MỘT SỐ ĐỀ XUẤT NHẰM HỖ TRỢ LAO ĐỘNG NỮ TRƯỚC TÁC ĐỘNG CỦA CÁCH MẠNG CÔNG NGHIỆP LẦN THỨ TƯ

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 can lead to the advent of a new economic morphology which can change fundamentally many areas, including the way of thinking, lifestyles, methods of work and human relations in all social activities. According to experts, in the 21st century, under the impact of this Revolution, there will be changing trends in labour from mainly simple labor skills to mainly thinking skills, from workers serve machines to machines and tools serve people (i.e. robots will replace most people working).... In other words, automation, artificial intelligence and big data, the features of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, will greatly affect the work of the simple skilled workforce, especially female workers. In Vietnam, female labour accounts for about 45.6% of the workforce and, particularly, most of them working in sectors such as agriculture, textile, footwear, electrical and electronics assembly... where the future workforce will be most robots. Therefore, government’s specific strategies, policies and plans aimed at supporting female labourers are very necessary so that they can have access to new technologies, be trained and raise their level to meet the demands of the changing socio-economic environment in the context that Vietnam increasingly integrate into the world economy. This article demonstrates a part of the findings from the ministry-level research: “Occupational adaptability of female workers to the requirements of the fourth Industrial Revolution” conducted by the Vietnam Women’s Academy in 2018-2019. The figures described in the tables and charts are obtained from the survey of 600 female laborers in 4 sectors: textile and footwear, electronics, agriculture and restaurants-hotels in 6 provinces representing different regions of the country.