A/RES/74/235 Women in development furthest behind, and address gender disparities, including by investing in public education systems and infrastructure, eliminating discriminatory laws and practices, providing universal access to inclusive and equitable quality education, including free and compulsory primary and secondary education, promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, eliminating female illiteracy and promoting financial and digital literacy, ensuring that women and girls have equal access to career development, training, scholarships and fellowships, adopting positive actions to build women ’s and girls’ leadership skills and influence and supporting women and girls in diversifying their educational and occupational choices in emerging fields, such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics and information and communications technology, to strive to ensure the completion of early childhood, primary and secondary education and expand vocational and technical education for all women and girls, and foster, as appropriate, intercultural and multilingual education for all, and to address negative social norms and gender stereotypes in education systems, including in curricula and teaching methodologies, that devalue girls’ education and prevent women and girls from having access to, completing and continuing their education; 25. Encourages Governments to consider adopting and pursuing national financial inclusion strategies and gender-responsive strategies to end the structural barriers to women’s equal access to economic resources and to expand peer learning, experience-sharing and capacity-building among countries and regions in this respect; 26. Recognizes the need to build dynamic, sustainable, innovative and people centred economies, promoting youth employment, and women’s economic empowerment in particular, and decent work for all, and to ensure that labour market regulations and social provisions create a level playing field for women, for example, by enacting and enforcing minimum wage legislation, eliminating discriminatory wage practices and promoting measures such as public works programmes, in or der to enable women to cope with recurrent crises and long -term unemployment; 27. Reaffirms its commitment to diversity in cities and human settlements, to strengthening social cohesion, intercultural dialogue and understanding, tolerance, mutual respect, gender equality, innovation, entrepreneurship, inclusion, identity and safety and the dignity of all people, as well as to fostering liveability and a vibrant urban economy and to taking steps to ensure that local institutions promote pluralism and peaceful coexistence within increasingly heterogeneous and multicultural societies; 28. Encourages Member States to adopt and implement, as appropriate, gender-sensitive legislation and policies, protect women’s labour and human rights in the workplace, including with respect to minimum wages, social protection and equal pay for equal work or for work of equal value, through specifically targeted measures, reduce horizontal and vertical occupational segregation and gender-based wage gaps, promote collective bargaining and provide for recruitment, retention and promotion policies targeting women; 29. Urges Member States to adopt and implement legislation and policies, as appropriate, that are designed to promote the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities and that recognize, value, assess, reduce and redistribute women ’s disproportionate share of unpaid and domestic work and the work burden of women engaged in unpaid work, including domestic and care work, including through increased flexibility in working arrangements, such as part-time work, and the 10/17 19-22508