Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam/Công Hoa Xä Hôi Chu Nghia Viêt Nam (Cộng Hỏa Xâ Hội Chủ Nghỉa Việt Nam) (Female suffrage 1945) Independent 1954 from France , North and South Vietnam were reunited 1976. The Socialist North and Right-Wing South fought a civil war 1945-76 supported by The Soviet Union and USA, which was won by the Socialists

See also Parliament and Vietnam Heads of State

1969-79 Minister of Social Affairs, Health and the Disabled Duang Quynh Hoa
She resigned from the Communist Party and Government and has since been an outspoken critic of the regime. She worked at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

1969 5 Female Ministers and Vice-Ministers N.N.

1976-87 Minister of Education Nguyên Thi Bình
1981-92 Member of the Council of State
1987-92 Vice Chairperson of the Council of State
1992-2002 Vice-President
She had been Spokesperson of the National Liberation Front by the Peace Negotiations in Paris 1968 and
1969-76 Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisorial Revolutionary Government of  South Vietnam
From 1992 she was the only Deputy Head of State. (b. 1927-)

1975-76 Deputy Minister of Health Social Affairs and War Invalids Bui Thi Me

1975 12 Female Ministers and Vice-ministers N.N.

1981 23 Female Ministers and Vice-ministers N.N.
(of a total of 100 ministers)

Around 1982 Minister of Labour Dào Thiên Thi
In 1982 there was female ministers in the government.

1986 3 Female Ministers N.N.

Ca. 1991 Chairperson of the State Commissison for Economic and Cultural Cooperation with Laos and Cambodia Deng Thi

Until 1994 Vice-Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare Nguyên Thi Hang
1994-95 Acting Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare
1995-2002 Vice-Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare 
2002-07 Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare

Around 1994 Minister and Chairperson of the National Committee for Population and Family Planning Prof Mai Hoa Ky

Ca. 1994-2002 Minister in Charge of Children Care and Child Protection Trân Thi Thanh Thanh

Ca. 1996-ca. 2007 Vice-Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Thinh To Tam

Ca. 1996-ca. 98 Vice-Minister of the State Committee for Cooperation and Investment 
Ca. 1998-2001 Vice-Minister of Planning
Vice-Minister of the State Committee for Cooperation and Investment Do Thi Ngoc Trinh

Ca. 1996-2007 Vice-Minister of the State Committee for Cooperation and Investment Lu Minh Chau

Ca. 1996-ca. 98 Vice-Minister of Trade Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân
Ca. 1998-2007 Vice-Minister of Finance
2007- Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs

1997-2002 Minister of Population Activities and Family Planning 
2002-07 Minister of Health Trân Thi Trung Chiên

Ca. 1997-2003 Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Phan Thúy Thanh
Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union.

(1998  Minister of ? Nguyên Thi Hai)

Ca. 1999-2001 Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party Nguên Thi Xuan My