F. Promote women’s economic self-reliance, including access to employment, appropriate working conditions and control over economic resources - land, capital and technology 87. Actions should be taken to provide women with the same access to employment, appropriate working conditions and control over economic resources as men. These actions should be seen in terms of other strategic objectives, including eliminating factors that accentuate poverty and strengthening factors that promote the full participation of women. They should involve a combination of actions by Governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector, supported by the international community. A gender approach should be followed in the definition, implementation and monitoring of policies at the national, regional and international levels, and in the design, implementation and monitoring of international cooperation. Secure economic rights for women 88. Governments and private sector institutions should eliminate all laws and regulations that discriminate against women in economic activities, especially those that discriminate against rural women, women in the informal sector and self-employed, in their access to economic resources. Measures should also be taken to guarantee protection against discrimination and provide the right of petition for discrimination, including implementation of ILO Convention No. 156 on workers with family responsibilities, and special efforts made to protect the rights of women migrant workers. Non-governmental organizations and national machinery for the advancement of women should cooperate to facilitate public education and awareness, monitor progress and initiate legislative provisions for enforcement of women’s rights. Take positive action to give women access to resources, employment and appropriate working conditions, market and trade 89. Positive actions should be taken to overcome barriers to access to economic resources, such as targeting women in employment programmes, providing guarantee loans for women entrepreneurs, especially in rural areas, introducing programmes and training courses in non-traditional areas of work, revaluing women’s traditional work and work in the informal sector by improving training in these sectors and recognizing them in national accounts and national social security schemes. Access to technology, markets and trade should be promoted. International financial institutions should include these positive actions in their programmes and projects and monitor them. The goal of equal pay for work of equal value should be actively promoted with a view to achieving it by the year 2000 through such measures as job evaluation and the establishment of equal pay legislation covering both the formal and the informal sectors. Redress mechanisms should be set up for women who have experienced discrimination and monitoring instruments established. Create a flexible work environment 90. Actions by Governments, non-governmental organizations, business, professional and trade associations and the private sector should lead to the creation of a work environment that facilitates women’s participation in economic activities. This should include providing opportunities for both women and men to reconcile family and economic responsibilities through flexible administrative regulations, parental leave, providing for part-time work with benefits and flexible hours, individual taxation, and provision of social support services such as child and dependant care and occupational health care. -47-