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; 19-22508 11/17

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