18 f) Ensure that education material and teaching practices are gender sensitive and encourage girls and young women to undertake studies in the sciences; g) Provide educational systems that do not impede girls and young women, including married and/or pregnant young women, from attending; h) Take steps to provide equal access to health care services and nutrition for girls and young women; i) Protect girls and young women from economic exploitation and from performing work that is hazardous, takes them away from education or that is harmful to their mental or physical health; j) Offer equal access to young women to employment and promote their participation in all sectors of employment; k) Introduce special legislation and programmes of action that make available opportunities to girls and young women including access to education as a prerequisite and a priority for rapid social and economic development; l) Enact and enforce legislation that protect girls and young women from all forms of violence, genital mutilation, incest, rape, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, trafficking, prostitution and pornography; m) Develop programmes of action that provide legal, physical and psychological support to girls and young women who have been subjected to violence and abuse such that they can fully re-integrate into social and economic life; n) Secure the right for young women to maternity leave. Article 24: Mentally and Physically Challenged Youth 1. States Parties recognise the right of mentally and physically challenged youth to special care and shall ensure that they have equal and effective access to education, training, health care services, employment, sport, physical education and cultural and recreational activities. 2. State Parties shall work towards eliminating any obstacles that may have negative implications for the full integration of mentally and physically challenged youth into society including the provision of appropriate infrastructure and services to facilitate easy mobility.