Women in development
A/RES/68/227
productivity, efficiency and sustained and inclusive economic growth, in all sectors
of the economy, especially in key areas such as agriculture, industry and services,
Noting the importance of the organizations and bodies of the United Nations
system, in particular its funds and programmes, and the specialized agencies in
facilitating the advancement of women in development, and in this context recalling
the resolution on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational
activities for development of the United Nations system,
Reaffirming the provisions concerning the pursuit of full and productive
employment and access to decent work and social protection for all in the outcome
document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, and
calling upon States to adopt forward-looking macroeconomic policies that promote
sustainable development and lead to sustained, inclusive and equitable economic
growth, increase productive employment opportunities and promote agricultural and
industrial development,
Recognizing that men and women workers should have equal access to
education, skills, health care, social security, fundamental rights at work, social and
legal protections, including occupational safety and health, and decent work
opportunities,
Recognizing also that access to basic affordable health care, preventive healthcare information and the highest standard of health, including in the areas of sexual
and reproductive health, is critical to women’s economic advancement, that lack of
economic empowerment and independence increases women’s vulnerability to a
range of negative consequences, including the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, and
that the neglect of women’s full enjoyment of human rights severely limits their
opportunities in public and private life, including the opportunities for receiving an
education and for achieving economic and political empowerment,
Reaffirming the need to eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary
education by the earliest possible date and at all levels by 2015, and reaffirming also
that equal access to education and training at all levels, in particular in business,
trade, administration, information and communications technologies and other new
technologies, and fulfilment of the need to eliminate gender inequalities at all levels
are essential for gender equality, the empowerment of women and poverty
eradication and to allowing women’s full and equal contribution to, and equal
opportunity to benefit from, development,
Reaffirming also that women are key contributors to the economy and to
combating poverty and inequalities through both remunerated and unremunerated
work at home, in the community and in the workplace, and that the empowerment of
women is a critical factor in the eradication of poverty,
Recognizing that unremunerated work, including domestic and care work,
plays an essential role in improving well-being in the household and in the
functioning of the economy as a whole, and acknowledging the need to recognize
and consider, where appropriate, policies and programmes that would contribute to
reducing the unequal burden of unremunerated work, including care work, for which
women and girls continue to carry an unequal level of responsibility,
Recognizing also that the difficult socioeconomic conditions that exist in many
developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, have contributed to
the feminization of poverty,
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