Women in development
A/RES/74/235
facilitation of breastfeeding for working mothers, to provide support through the
development of infrastructure and technology and the provision of public services,
including accessible, affordable and quality social services, childcare and care
facilities for children and other dependants, and to ensure that both women and men
have access to inclusive and gender-responsive social protection systems, including
floors, and maternity or paternity, parental and other forms of leave and allowances
and are not discriminated against when availing themselves of such benefits;
30. Encourages Governments, the private sector, non-governmental
organizations, trade unions and other stakeholders to promote and protect th e rights
of women workers, to take action to remove structural and legal barriers to, as well
as eliminate stereotypical attitudes towards, gender equality at work and implement
labour market policies to achieve full and productive employment and decent wo rk
for all, to implement measures to achieve equal pay for equal work or for work of
equal value, as well as to encourage women’s full participation in the formal economy,
in particular in economic decision-making and resource allocation, and to take
measures to increase women’s access to productive resources and assets, including
digital technology, land, property and financial services, including microfinance, as
appropriate;
31. Encourages the United Nations system and donor countries to support
Member States in increasing their investments in gender-responsive policies and
programmes, in order to promote full employment and decent work for women, and
in delivering relevant social protection and social services;
32. Urges Governments to develop, adequately resource and implement active
labour market policies on full and productive employment and decent work for all,
including the full participation of women and men in both rural and urban areas, as
well as policies that encourage the full and equal parti cipation of women and men,
including persons with disabilities, in the formal labour market, to enact or strengthen
and enforce laws and regulatory frameworks that ensure equality and prohibit
discrimination against women, in particular in the world of wor k, including their
participation in and access to labour markets, inter alia, laws and frameworks that
prohibit discrimination based on pregnancy, motherhood, marital status or age, as well
as other multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, to tak e appropriate
measures to ensure that women, throughout the life cycle, have equal opportunities
for decent work in the public and private sectors, while recognizing that temporary
special measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality between men and wo men
should not be considered discrimination, to address the root causes of gender
inequality, gender stereotypes and unequal power relations between men and women
and to provide, as appropriate, effective means of redress and access to justice in cases
of non-compliance and accountability for violations and abuses of human rights;
33. Urges the United Nations system and other international organizations,
upon the request of Member States, to support and promote innovative programme
responses to ensure women’s access to decent work, to recognize, reduce and
redistribute the unequal burden of unpaid care and domestic work, to promote gender responsive social protection initiatives and measures for women and girls and to
support and encourage the scaling-up of existing good practice programmes and
initiatives, including to assess and address the impact of information and
communications technology, digitalization and digital markets on the labour market;
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