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regard effective means of redress and access to justice in cases of non-compliance, including
fair and accessible dispute resolution mechanisms;
(b)
To promote the implementation of equal pay policies through, for example,
social dialogue, collective bargaining, objective appraisals and gender-neutral job
evaluations, awareness-raising campaigns, pay analysis and transparency, and gender pay
audits, as well as certification and review of pay practices and working conditions, and
increased availability of data disaggregated by sex and analysis of the gender pay gap;
(c)
To recognize and adopt measures to reduce and redistribute women’s and girls’
disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work by promoting and developing or
strengthening laws, regulatory frameworks, policies or other equivalent measures that
promote the reconciliation and sharing of work and private and family responsibilities for
women and men;
(d)
To design, implement and promote family-responsive legislation, policies and
services, such as shared parental and other leave schemes, increased flexibility in healthy and
safe working arrangements for women and men, without reductions in labour and social
protection, support for breastfeeding mothers, development of infrastructure and technology,
and the provision of services, including universal affordable, accessible and quality care
facilities for children and other dependants, which create an enabling environment for
women’s labour market participation and their economic independence;
(e)
To work towards establishing or strengthening inclusive and genderresponsive social protection systems, including floors, to ensure full access to social
protection for all without discrimination of any kind, and to take measures to progressively
achieve higher levels of protection, including by facilitating the transition from informal to
formal work;
(f)
To take all appropriate measures to address the wage disparity and reduction
experienced by many women when they have children, including by promoting parental and
paternity leave and men’s use of such leave through, inter alia, dedicated, non-transferable
paid leave for fathers, and by ensuring that such leave is connected to the availability of
affordable, accessible, inclusive and quality childcare services and facilities, including early
childhood services and after-school services for children and adolescents, and to ensure a
seamless transition of parents back into the labour market;
(g)
To eliminate occupational segregation based on structural barriers, gender
stereotypes and negative social norms by promoting women’s equal access to and
participation in labour markets and in education and training, supporting women and girls so
as to diversify their educational and occupational choices in emerging fields and growing
economic sectors, such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics and information
and communications technology, and recognizing the value of sectors that have a large
number of women workers;
(h)
To eliminate gender disparities in the realization of the right to education at all
levels and to ensure full and equal participation in and completion of inclusive quality
education for all, without discrimination, including vocational and technical education free
of gender stereotypes;
(i)
To promote lifelong learning opportunities for all women and girls and the
elimination of female illiteracy and the digital gender gap, including through quality teacher
training, recruitment and retention of teachers in rural areas and building gender-responsive
education facilities that provide a safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning
environment for all and facilitate an effective transition from education or unemployment to
decent work;
(j)
To fully engage men and boys as stakeholders and strategic partners 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, 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
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