institutes and other key agencies, as well as through their participation in appropriate international bodies; (e) Undertake legislation and administrative reforms to give women equal rights with men to economic resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and appropriate new technology; (f) Conduct reviews of national income and inheritance tax and social security systems to eliminate any existing bias against women; (g) Seek to develop a more comprehensive knowledge of work and employment through, inter alia, efforts to measure and better understand the type, extent and distribution of unremunerated work, particularly work in caring for dependants and unremunerated work done for family farms or businesses, and encourage the sharing and dissemination of information on studies and experience in this field, including the development of methods for assessing its value in quantitative terms, for possible reflection in accounts that may be produced separately from, but consistent with, core national accounts; (h) Review and amend laws governing the operation of financial institutions to ensure that they provide services to women and men on an equal basis; (i) Facilitate, at appropriate levels, more open and transparent budget processes; (j) Revise and implement national policies that support the traditional savings, credit and lending mechanisms for women; (k) Seek to ensure that national policies related to international and regional trade agreements do not have an adverse impact on women’s new and traditional economic activities; (l) Ensure that all corporations, including transnational corporations, comply with national laws and codes, social security regulations, applicable international agreements, instruments and conventions, including those related to the environment, and other relevant laws; (m) Adjust employment policies to facilitate the restructuring of work patterns in order to promote the sharing of family responsibilities; (n) Establish mechanisms and other forums to enable women entrepreneurs and women workers to contribute to the formulation of policies and programmes being developed by economic ministries and financial institutions; (o) Enact and enforce equal opportunity laws, take positive action and ensure compliance by the public and private sectors through various means; (p) Use gender-impact analyses in the development of macro and microeconomic and social policies in order to monitor such impact and restructure policies in cases where harmful impact occurs; (q) Promote gender-sensitive policies and measures to empower women as -69-

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