Vo Nhai is a mountainous district located in North-East of Thai Nguyen province. In this district, female ethnic minority workers in rural areas acount for 65.27 percent of total female workers, most of whom are the Tay and Nung accounting for over 70 percent. They are mostly young, at the age of 15 to 44. However, their educational and professional level is low
particularly, over 68 percent of them only recieved elementary and junior secondary degrees, over 90 percent have not been properly trained. Female ethnic minority labors mainly participate in agriculture and forestry production (over 87.7 percent)
the proportion of ethinic minority women engaged in governments and organizations in recent years has increased but is still much lower then that of men (average of less than 14.3 percent of the titles). Nonetheless, female workers have a very important role in generating income and household economic development.