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supported by integrated and multisectoral policies, in order to improve women ’s
productive capacity and income, strengthen their resilience and achiev e equitable
access to all forms of financing, markets and networks, technologies, including
agricultural technology information and know-how, equipment, decision-making
forums and associated agricultural resources, and ensure that agriculture, food
security and nutrition-related programmes and policies take into consideration the
specific needs of all women and the barriers that women face in accessing agricultural
inputs and resources;
(aa) Eliminate occupational segregation by addressing structural barr iers, all
forms of discrimination, gender stereotypes and negative social norms, promote
women’s participation and equal access to the labour market and, through education
and training, support women in diversifying their educational and occupational
choices, including in emerging fields and growing economic sectors, such as science,
technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as information and communications
technology, and recognize the value of sectors that have large numbers of women
workers;
(bb) Promote legal, administrative and policy measures that strengthen social
protection schemes, including unemployment protection schemes and ensure
women’s full and equal access to pension systems, including access to income
security for older women, through contributory and/or non-contributory schemes that
are independent of their employment trajectories, and reduce gender gaps in coverage
and benefit levels in order to contribute to the eradication of poverty;
(cc) Encourage the private sector, as outlined in the Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights, to contribute to the fulfilment of the right of women,
including women living in poverty, to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions
of work, to develop and strengthen workplace environments and institutional practices
that value them and offer them equal opportunities, including by ensuring that gender
equality and the empowerment of all women are considered a necessary dimension of
human resources management, based also on the principles of full and productive
employment and decent work, equal pay for work of equal value, as well as the
prevention of and protection against discrimination and harassment, including sexual
harassment, sexual exploitation, abuse and gender-based violence in the workplace;
(dd) Enact legislation and undertake legislation and administrative reforms,
where necessary, to realize the equal rights of all women, including rural women,
women in remote areas and on islands, to economic and productive resources and
eliminate any barriers, legal inconsistencies and discriminatory policies and laws,
where they exist, that impede women’s equal rights and women’s economic
empowerment; realize the right of all women to work and their rights at work,
building their capacities and skills to manage enterprises and cooperatives,
facilitating formalization and ensuring their financial and digital inclusion, as well as
their access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit,
financial services, appropriate new technologies and inheritance rights, including
diverse types of land tenure;
(ee) Take measures to prevent, detect, address and end all violence
experienced by women that comprises actions aimed at economic abuse, making
women financially dependent or exerting abusive control of finances, including the
limiting of women’s access to credit, funds, health care, employment and education
and excluding women from financial decisions and denying women ’s rights with
regard to property ownership, land and inheritance and freedom of movement, and
review practices and stereotypes that undermine their land rights, including in the
context of customary and traditional systems, which often govern land management,
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