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(a)
Ensure universal access to paid maternity, paternity and parental leave
for all workers, including those in non-standard employment and informal work;
(b)
Enable the equal sharing of paid and unpaid care work between women
and men by providing universal paid parental leave for all parents and through
specific interventions to increase men’s uptake of parental leave, including “use it or
lose it” provisions;
(c)
Increase investments to ensure universal access to affordable and high
quality childcare, disability and aged care services, ensuring access for both informal
workers and those in non-standard forms of employment;
(d)
Ensure universal access to a full range of sexual and reproductive health
services and information to all women and adolescent girls to enable them to exercise
autonomy in decision-making about pregnancy and parenthood;
(e)
Increase investments in basic infrastructure and services in urban and
rural areas to free up women’s time to engage in paid work;
(f)
Ensure that care work is a central pillar of macroeconomic policies, in
order to generate resources for and investments in care services, paid parental leave
and social protection, with the aim of redistributing unpaid care and domestic work
between the State and families and between women and men.
D.
Disrupt structural patterns of “women’s” and “men’s” work
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In order to disrupt structural patterns of “women’s” and “men’s” work, the
Working Group recommends that States:
(a)
Establish temporary special measures (quotas and targets) to ensure that
women benefit from employment in high-growth areas (such as renewable energy and
technology), with specific measures to ensure that women are equally represented in
technical and leadership roles;
(b)
Establish temporary special measures (quotas and targets) to increase
women and girls’ participation in education in the areas of science, technology,
engineering and mathematics;
(c)
Establish targeted programmes for women’s training and reskilling for
occupations and industries that are at risk of automation;
(d)
Ensure equal access to ICTs for women;
(e)
Strengthen legal frameworks to introduce minimum wages for all
workers and the legal obligation of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value;
(f)
Introduce regulations requiring employers to regularly report on their
efforts towards and progress made in closing the gender pay gap, with disaggregated
data on multiple grounds, including race, ethnicity and age, and on women’s
representation in different roles and levels of leadership;
(g)
Introduce specific measures, including education and training
programmes and access to a full range of sexual and reproductive health services and
information, to ensure that young women transition from school to decent work
opportunities and maintain their attachment to the workforce;
(h)
Introduce specific measures to increase men’s participation in femaledominated sectors and women’s participation in male-dominated areas.
E.
Ensure all women workers can enjoy their rights, without
discrimination, including informal workers
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To ensure that all women workers can enjoy their rights without
discrimination, the Working Group recommends that States:
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