Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027) (2019), para. 62
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- 25. Also stresses the importance of policies and actions that are not just gender-responsive but that actively seek to advance the goal of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment as well as to address longer-term structural issues, including structural constraints faced by women as economic agents, and to remove any barriers that prevent women from being full participants in the economy, by, inter alia, undertaking legislation and administrative reforms, as appropriate, to give women equal rights with men in political and economic decision-making and access to economic resources and to promote the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities, including through paid maternity and parental leave and the redistribution of the disproportionate work burden of women engaged in unpaid work, including domestic and care work, encourages the private sector, in accordance with national legislation, to contribute to advancing gender equality by striving to ensure women’s full and productive employment and decent work, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and equal opportunities, as well as by protecting them against discrimination and abuse in the workplace, and underlines that globally, gross domestic product could increase significantly if every country achieved gender equality and increased participation of women in the formal labour fo rce;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
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- Girls
- Women
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- 62
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