Impact of gender equality on implementation of land use rights through land access of ethnic minorities in central Vietnam

Abstract

The study was conducted to test the impact of gender equality on implementing land use rights through land access of ethnic minorities. Preliminary scale evaluation using Cronbach's Alpha coefficient and EFA exploratory factor analysis with 100 survey samples was performed using SPSS 26.0 software. The official quantitative research model was tested by the partial minimum average method (PLS) in SmartPLS3 software with 349 survey samples from 3 ethnic minority groups, including Cham, Bana, and Hre, in Binh Dinh province, a province in the center of Vietnam. Research results show that all three ethnic groups, Cham, Bana, and Hre, who participated in the survey, said that women currently face many disadvantages in accessing land and exercising land use rights compared to men. The research results confirm a solid positive indirect and positive relationship between gender equality and the exercise of land use rights through the intermediate variable of land access. The research results contribute some theoretical implications in developing land policies to achieve equality in land access, improve land access and realize land use rights for ethnic minorities women.