TTLV: The issue of gender inequality in the family, as reported in the Hanoi Women's Newspaper and the Ho Chi Minh City Women's Newspaper in 2015-2016.

1. Student's full name: NGUYEN THI HA

2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: May 28, 1978

4. Place of birth: Nghe An

5. Decision to recognize students No. 3683/QD-XHNV; Dated December 31, 2015, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in the training process:

According to the course schedule from December 2015 to December 2017, due to health reasons, I applied for an extension of 10 months (Phase 1 from January 1, 2018 to June 31, 2018, Phase 2 from July 1, 2018 to October 31, 2018) to complete my thesis.

7. Thesis title:The issue of gender inequality in the family, as reported in the Hanoi Women's Newspaper and the Ho Chi Minh City Women's Newspaper in 2015-2016.

8. Major: Journalism and Communication; Code: 60 32 01 01

9. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mai Quynh Nam

Affiliation: Institute for Human Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.

10. Summary of the thesis results:

Vietnam was one of the first countries in the world to sign international conventions on the realization of women's and children's rights, and the introduction of progressive ideas on gender equality into the family is considered a major step forward, creating a legal framework to enhance the position and role of women in the family. However, achieving gender equality is not easy. A segment of society still misunderstands gender inequality, and prejudiced gender perceptions, such as valuing sons over daughters and assuming that household chores are solely the responsibility of women, persist. Domestic violence continues to increase, causing social instability.

The fundamental reason for this situation is that the media in general, and news organizations, journalists, and editors in particular, lack a complete and in-depth understanding of gender inequality, both theoretically and scientifically.

This situation has raised important questions such as: What are the reasons for the slow progress in gender equality, the continued existence and increasing complexity of gender inequality within families? How can we remove the challenges and barriers to narrow the gender inequality gap? What challenges and limitations does media coverage of gender inequality within families face?

Thesis"The issue of gender inequality in the family (published in Hanoi Women's Newspaper and Ho Chi Minh City Women's Newspaper from 2015-2016)"It is an attempt to contribute in some way to the overall effort to find solutions to these problems.

The thesis is presented in 4 chapters (in addition to the introduction and conclusion).

Chapter 1: Theoretical and practical foundations of mass media applied to the study of gender equality and inequality.

Chapter 2: The content of the message on gender inequality in the family as reflected in PNTD newspaper and PNTPHCM newspaper.

Chapter 3: Forms of expressing messages about gender inequality in PNTD Newspaper and PNTPHCM Newspaper.

Chapter 4: Solutions to improve the way messages against family inequality are expressed in PNTD Newspaper and PNTPHCM Newspaper.

11. Practical applications:

• Maximizing the effectiveness of research in disseminating information about gender equality and gender inequality in the Women's Union Newspaper and the Ho Chi Minh City Women's Union Newspaper.
• To enhance the understanding of press agencies, journalists, reporters, editors, contributors, and the public regarding the issue of combating gender inequality. To propose reasonable solutions to further improve the effectiveness of disseminating information on gender equality and combating gender inequality in the Women's Newspaper of Ho Chi Minh City. This will contribute to guiding society to correctly understand gender inequality and to adopt appropriate attitudes and actions to achieve gender equality in the family sphere.

12. Further research directions (if any):

13. Published works related to the thesis: None

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

1. Full name: NGUYEN THI HA

2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: May 28, 1978

4. Place of birth: Nghe An

5. Admission decision number: 3683/QD-XHNV Dated December 31, 2015

6. Changes in academic process:

According to the course schedule from December 2015 - December 2017, due to health conditions, I applied for 10 months extension (the first from January 1, 2018 to June 31, 2018, the second from July 1, 2018 to October 31, 2018) to complete the thesis.

7. Official thesis title:

Gender inequality in the family The Capital Women press, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Press from 2015 to 2016

8. Major: Journalism and Communication. Code: 60 32 01 01

9. Supervisors: Assoc. Professor, Dr. Quynh Nam Mai

10. Summary of the findings of the thesis:

Vietnam is one of the earliest countries to sign the international conventions on the implementation of women's and children's rights. Also Vietnam introduced families a number of advances in gender equality, which is known as breakthrough especially it has been improving the role of women in the family.

It is not easy to achieve gender equality for several reasons. The first one is there are some social groups still believing in gender bias. For instance, they believe Women belong in the kitchen and Men belong at the office. Another reason is the lack of awareness about gender inequality in terms of theoretical and scientific.

Thus there are some important issues to solve such as finding the reason of Progress on gender equality being far slow and more complicated how to bridge the gap for gender inequality, the challenges and limitations of information media about gender inequality in the family.

"Gender inequality in the family” (The Capital Women press, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Press from 2015 to 2016), the thesis contributes to the current state of knowledge of gender inequality providing solutions for above problems.

The remainder of the paper is organized as follows, including 4 sections.

Section 1 reviews the literature. In detail, this section discusses some methods used in earlier studies to study gender equality and gender inequality. While section 2 briefly describes the contents of articles mentioning gender inequality in the family on The Capital Women press, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Press, how to mention of gender inequality on The Capital Women press, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Press is provided in section 3. Finally, section 4 concludes this paper with solutions to improve the expression of fighting inequality in the family on The Capital Women press, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Press.

11. Practical applicability, if any:

- The thesis would increase the effectiveness of studying information on gender equality and gender inequality on The Capital Women press, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Press.

- Also it could enhance the knowledge of journalists and residents of fighting gender inequality. In detail, it offers a number of reasonable solutions to improve the effectiveness of the providing information about gender equality to residence via The Capital Women press, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Press. As a result it helps people deeply understand of gender inequality to easily implement gender equality in the family.

12. Further research directions (if any):

13. Thesis-related publications: no