E/CN.6/2024/L.3 respectful relationships, in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to, inter alia, enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection and other risks; (nn) Recognize, reduce and redistribute women’s and girls’ disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work, including through sustained investments in the care economy and by promoting work-life balance, and by taking steps to measure the value of this work in order to determine its contribution to the national economy; adopt measures to promote equal sharing of responsibility between women and men and within the household with respect to care and household work and implement legislation and policies, including paid maternity, paternity, parental and other leave schemes, increased flexibility in working arrangements, such as facilitation of breastfeeding for working mothers and part-time work, without reductions in labour and social protection, and all appropriate measures to promote the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities, through the provision of infrastructure, technology and public services, including accessible, affordable and quality social services, childcare and care facilities and services for children, older persons and other dependants; (oo) Provide social protection systems, public services and sustainable infrastructure that support the productivity and economic viability of women ’s work and protect women, especially those working in the informal economy, i ncluding in rural and urban areas, by taking measures to address unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, including by promoting occupational safety and health protection for all workers, including those in precarious work and low-paid sectors in which women are overrepresented, such as care and health care; (pp) Establish or strengthen inclusive, comprehensive and universal social protection systems, including floors, that integrate a gender perspective to ensure full access to social protection for all women and girls, including those living in poverty, without discrimination of any kind, and take measures to progressively achieve higher levels of protection, including for those working in the informal economy; (qq) Invest in equitable, high-quality, inclusive, affordable and accessible public services, which has proven to be effective in promoting the rights of all women and girls, including those living in poverty, and achieving gender equality, and increase public investment to support the developmen t of human capabilities, address unpaid care work and support decent work for all women, while recognizing that public spending on social infrastructure produces positive spillover benefits and enhances the productivity of the economy and contributes to th e financial independence of women; (rr) Significantly increase public and private sector investment in evidence based initiatives aimed at eliminating the gender digital divide, especially for women and girls living in poverty, and build more inclusive in novation ecosystems to promote safe innovation for gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and ensure full respect for all women’s and girls’ human rights in the digital context, including by using innovative finance mechanisms and tools, inter alia, mobile banking, online payment platforms and digitalized payment, and developing specialized financing instruments to strengthen the contribution of women, including women living in poverty, to economic growth and their continued participatio n in the digital economy; (ss) Enhance efforts to achieve universal and affordable connectivity and facilitate and promote access to information and communications technology and safety in digital spaces for women and girls, to enhance women ’s productivity and mobility in the labour market, while taking measures to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls that occurs through or is amplified by the use of 20/27 24-05678

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