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Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 16
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- Child and dependant care can constitute a major source of new jobs for women and men.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 12c
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- [Action is needed to:] (c) Promote legislative measures, incentives and/or measures of encouragement that would enable men and women to take parental leave and receive social security benefits. Such measures should protect working men and women against dismissal and guarantee their right to re-enter employment in an equivalent post;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 8
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- These measures should include recognition of the social and economic importance of unremunerated work, and should aim at desegregating the labour market through, inter alia, the adoption and application of laws embodying the principle of equal pay for women and men for equal work or work of equal value.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 5
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- Family responsibilities rest equally with men and with women. Greater participation of men in family responsibilities, including domestic work and child and dependant care, would contribute to the welfare of children, women and men themselves. Even though this change is bound to be slow and difficult, it remains essential.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 1h
- Paragraph text
- [Urges States:] (h) To promote policies and measures aimed at the economic empowerment of young women, especially those living in rural and remote areas, inter alia, by increasing their access to economic resources, enhancing the employability of young women, developing their skills and broadening their access to career choices, as well as by facilitating better reconciliation of work and family life;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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