[Wikipedia] Women in Thailand

Women in Thailand

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Women in Thailand

A female nurse in Thailand A female vendor in Thailand
Gender Inequality Index[1]
Value	0.360 (2012)
Rank	66th out of 148
Maternal mortality(per 100,000)	48 (2010)
Women in parliament	15.7% (2012)
Females over 25 withsecondary education	29.0% (2010)
Women in labour force	63.8% (2011)
Global Gender Gap Index[2]
Value	0.6928 (2013)
Rank	65th out of 136

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 [hide] Women in Thailand were among the first women in Asia who were granted the right to vote in 1932. They are underrepresented in Thai politics.^[3][4] Yingluck Shinawatra, a woman, has been Prime Minister since 2011. The roles of women in Thailand's national development has not yet been fully established. Factors that affect women's participation in the socio-economic field include "inadequate gender awareness in the policy and planning process" and social stereotyping.^[5]

• 1 Politics
• 2 Business
• 3 Marriage
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 Further readings
• 7 External links

Politics[edit]

Despite of the absence of legal limitations to women participating in the politic arena of Thailand, the factors that impeded the rise of women in political activities include structural barriers, cultural impediments, lower educational attainments, lower socio-economic status,^[5][6] and power-sharing issues with the opposite sex.^[5] It was only on June 5, 1949 that Orapin Chaiyakan became the first Thai woman to be elected to hold a post in the House of Representatives^[3] of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Thailand.^[4]

Business[edit]

In the realm of entrepreneurship, Thailand’s female population comprised 47% of the country’s workforce, which makes up the highest percentage of working women in the region of the Asia-Pacific. However, these women are also confronted by hiring discrimination and gender inequality in relation to wages because of being "concentrated in lower-paying jobs".^[5][6] In relation to women’s welfare, somen women of Thailand are prone to becoming victims of spousal or marital rape, human trafficking, prostitution, and other forms of domestic abuse and sex crimes.^[5][6]

Marriage[edit]

See also: Thai marriage

According to the National Statistical Office of Thailand, female Thais marry at an earlier age than male Thais, and that 24% of Thai households have women identified as "heads of households".^[5] In 2007, The New York Times reported that after the Vietnam War, Thailand became the main rest and recreation and sex tourism destination of male foreigners, resulting in some marriages with Thai women. Among those who establish such marriages are men from Europe and the United States seeking companionship and economic relief particularly during retirement age. The Thai women, on the other hand, enter into the marriages in order to redeem themselves from their former life as prostitutes, from abandonment by former partners, and as an escape from "poverty and unhappiness", but not all Thai women who entered into this type of marriage were former prostitutes.^[7]

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