(z) Take all appropriate measures to recognize, reduce
and redistribute women’s and girls’ disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work by
promoting policies and initiatives supporting the
reconciliation of work and family life and the equal
sharing of responsibilities between women and men,
through flexibility in working arrangements without
reductions in labour and social protections, through
the provision of infrastructure, technology and public
services, such as water and sanitation, renewable
energy, transport and information and communications technology, as well as accessible, affordable and
quality childcare and care facilities and by challenging
gender stereotypes and negative social norms and
promoting men’s participation and responsibilities as
fathers and caregivers;
career guidance, including towards high-wage and
high-growth occupations;
(dd) Promote gender equality and the empowerment
of all women and girls with disabilities and the full
realization of their human rights and their inclusion
in society, and take measures to ensure that women
with disabilities have access to decent work on an
equal basis with others in the public and private
sectors, that labour markets and work environments
are open, inclusive and accessible to persons with
disabilities, and take positive measures to increase
employment of women with disabilities and
eliminate discrimination on the basis of disability
with regard to all matters concerning all forms of
employment, including recruitment, retention and
promotion, and the provision of safe, secure and
healthy working conditions, in consultation with
relevant national mechanisms and organizations of
persons with disabilities;
(aa) Take steps to measure the value of unpaid care and
domestic work in order to determine its contribution
to the national economy, for example through
periodic time-use surveys, and include such measurements in the formulation of gender-responsive
economic and social policies;
(ee)Strengthen and support the contributions of rural
women and women farmers to the agricultural
sector, food security and nutrition and the
economic well-being of their families and communities, and to enhancing agricultural and rural
development, including small-scale farming, and
ensure that they have equal access to agricultural
technologies, through investments and the transfer
of technology on mutually agreed terms, and innovation in small-scale agricultural production and
distribution, supported by integrated and multisectoral policies that improve productive capacity
and incomes and strengthen their resilience, and
address the existing gaps in and barriers to trading
their agricultural products in local, regional and
international markets;
(bb) Fully engage men and boys as strategic partners and
allies in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by designing and
implementing national policies and programmes
that address the roles and responsibilities of men
and boys, including the equal sharing of responsibilities in caregiving and domestic work, and encourage
men and boys to engage fully, as agents and beneficiaries of change, with the aim of eliminating all
forms of discrimination and violence against women
and girls in both the public and private spheres, by
understanding and addressing the root causes of
gender inequality, such as unequal power relations,
gender stereotypes and negative social norms
that view women and girls as subordinate to men
and boys, as a contribution to women’s economic
empowerment in the changing world of work;
(ff) Support remunerative non-agricultural employment
for rural women, by taking measures to improve
working conditions, increase access to productive
resources, invest in relevant infrastructure, public
services and time- and labour-saving technologies,
promote rural women’s paid employment in the
formal economy and address the structural and
underlying causes of the difficult conditions faced
by rural women;
(cc) Promote the entry and re-entry into, and advancement in, labour markets of all women, including
through policies and programmes aimed at the
elimination of structural barriers and stereotypes
that young women face in the transition from
school to work and also to address the challenges
faced by women returning from care-related
career breaks and by older women, by providing
access to technical and vocational skills training,
entrepreneurship development, job-matching and
(gg) Take measures to promote the economic
empowerment of indigenous women, including by
ensuring access to quality and inclusive education
and meaningful participation in the economy by
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