E/2006/27 E/CN.6/2006/15 (l) Ensure women’s and girls’ access to training that enabled them to develop their skills, capacities and expertise to exercise leadership, including tools, training and special programmes necessary to enter, inter alia, into politics, including at the highest levels, recognizing existing power differentials in society and the need to respect different positive models of leadership; (m) Ensure women’s equal access to decent work, full and productive employment, productive and financial resources and information, in order to facilitate their full and equal participation in decision-making processes at all levels; (n) Introduce objective and transparent procedures for recruitment and gender-sensitive career planning to enable women to assume decision-making positions at all levels and in all areas in order to break the glass ceiling;49 (o) Eliminate occupational segregation, gender wage gaps, as well as discrimination against women, including marginalized women, in the labour market, through legal and policy measures, including by increasing opportunities for women and girls, as well as men and boys, to work in non-traditional sectors; (p) Ensure women’s access to microcredit and microfinance schemes, which had proven to be effective means to empower women and could create an enabling environment to facilitate their full and equal participation in the decision-making processes at all levels, particularly at the grass-roots level; (q) Foster an enabling environment in decision-making processes at all levels, including through measures aimed at reconciling family and employment responsibilities, inter alia, by better sharing of paid and unpaid work between women and men; (r) Take measures to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, in order to promote their full and equal participation in public and political life; (s) Promote women’s leadership in all areas and at all levels and remove all barriers that directly or indirectly hindered the participation of women, in order to increase the visibility and influence of women in decision-making processes; (t) Facilitate networking and mentoring among women leaders and girls, as appropriate, at all levels and in all areas, including in politics, academia, trade unions, the media and civil society organizations, specifically women’s groups and networks, including through the use of information and communication technology, as appropriate; (u) Encourage, particularly among men and women in decision-making positions, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, and support women’s participation, representation and leadership in decision-making processes at all levels, including the exchange of best practices and awarenessraising; (v) Develop strategies to increase the involvement of men and boys in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women, through, inter alia, encouraging the sharing of household work and care; __________________ 49 32 See Commission on the Status of Women, agreed conclusions 1997/3, para. 10.