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Abstract

Gender equality is one of the focal points in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which face stiff confrontation in most developing nations because of cultural barriers and stereotypical behaviours towards females. However, measures must be implemented in most organisations in developing nations to ensure gender equality and inclusiveness of females in all sectors. This study investigated the measures of sustaining gender equality momentum through a survey of Vietnamese university students analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics to understand the efforts in attaining SDG 5. The analysis revealed that male and female students have similar views of gender equality measures across the curriculum and teaching practice, institutional policies and culture, and personal experience and perspective. The significant differences found in the respondents' opinions across their years of study are opined to tilt towards the first-year students. Therefore, it is recommended that the university management make known their gender equality stand and reiterate it on formal occasions such as open days and orientation exercises for first-year students. In addition, it is suggested that universities fund training that centres on gender equality and male staff and students should be in attendance to enable them to understand the global shift from patriarchal culture. The study's findings contribute practically and theoretically to the global discourse on gender equality, with implications for increasing the awareness and need for gender equality in academic environments of developing nations.