services, such as parental and other leave schemes,
increased flexibility in working arrangements,
support for breastfeeding mothers, development
of infrastructure and technology, and the provision
of services, including affordable, accessible and
quality childcare and care facilities for children and
other dependents, and promoting men’s equitable
responsibilities with respect to household work as
fathers and caregivers, which create an enabling
environment for women’s economic empowerment
in the changing world of work;
all levels, create conditions that facilitate women’s full
participation and integration in the formal economy
and develop gender-sensitive curricula for educational
programmes at all levels, inter alia, to address the root
causes of occupational segregation in working life;
(m) Place enhanced emphasis on quality education,
including communications and technology education, where available, for girls, including catch-up
and literacy education for those who did not receive
formal education, special initiatives for keeping girls
in school through post-primary education, including
those who are already married or pregnant, to
promote access to skills and entrepreneurship
training for young women and to tackle gender
stereotypes, in order to ensure that young women
entering the labour market have opportunities to
obtain full and productive employment, equitable
compensation and decent work;
( j) Refrain from promulgating and applying any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in
accordance with international law and the Charter of
the United Nations that impede the full achievement
of economic and social development, particularly in
developing countries;
Strengthening education, training
and skills development
(n) Ensure that pregnant adolescents and young
mothers, as well as single mothers, can continue
and complete their education, and in this regard,
design, implement and, where applicable, revise
educational policies to allow them to remain in
and return to school, providing them with access
to health-care and social services and support,
including childcare and breastfeeding facilities
and crèches, and to education programmes with
accessible locations, flexible schedules and distance
education, including e-learning, and bearing in
mind the important role and responsibilities of,
and challenges faced by, fathers, including young
fathers, in this regard;
(k) Promote and respect women’s and girls’ right to
education throughout the life cycle at all levels, especially for those who have been left furthest behind,
by providing universal access to quality education,
ensuring inclusive, equal and non-discriminatory
quality education, promoting lifelong learning
opportunities for all and the completion of primary
and secondary education and eliminating gender
disparities in access to all areas of secondary and
tertiary education, promoting financial and digital
literacy, ensuring that women and girls have equal
access to career development, training, scholarships
and fellowships, and adopting positive action to build
women’s and girls’ leadership skills and influence,
and adopt measures that promote, respect and guarantee the safety of women and girls in the school
environment and that support women and girls with
disabilities at all levels of education and training;
Implementing economic and social
policies for women’s economic
empowerment
(o) Adopt and implement, and monitor the impact of,
gender-responsive macroeconomic, labour and social
policies that promote inclusive growth, women’s
full and productive employment and decent work,
protect women’s right to work and rights at work and
mitigate the effects of economic recession;
(l) Mainstream a gender perspective into education and
training programmes, including those relating to
science, technology, engineering and mathematics,
eliminate female illiteracy and facilitate effective
transition from education or unemployment to work,
including through skills development to enable
women’s and girls’ active participation in economic,
social and cultural development and women’s active
participation in governance and decision-making at
(p) Take concrete steps towards eliminating the practice
of gender-based price differentiation, also known as
the “pink tax”, whereby goods and services intended
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