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respectful relationships, in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal
guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to, inter alia,
enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection and other risks;
(nn) Recognize, reduce and redistribute women’s and girls’ disproportionate
share of unpaid care and domestic work, including through sustained investments in the
care economy and by promoting work-life balance, and by taking steps to measure the
value of this work in order to determine its contribution to the national economy; adopt
measures to promote equal sharing of responsibility between women and men and
within the household with respect to care and household work and implement
legislation and policies, including paid maternity, paternity, parental and other leave
schemes, increased flexibility in working arrangements, such as facilitation of
breastfeeding for working mothers and part-time work, without reductions in labour
and social protection, and all appropriate measures to promote the reconciliation of
work and family responsibilities, through the provision of infrastructure, technology
and public services, including accessible, affordable and quality social services,
childcare and care facilities and services for children, older persons and other
dependants;
(oo) Provide social protection systems, public services and sustainable
infrastructure that support the productivity and economic viability of women ’s work
and protect women, especially those working in the informal economy, i ncluding in
rural and urban areas, by taking measures to address unsafe and unhealthy working
conditions, including by promoting occupational safety and health protection for all
workers, including those in precarious work and low-paid sectors in which women
are overrepresented, such as care and health care;
(pp) Establish or strengthen inclusive, comprehensive and universal social
protection systems, including floors, that integrate a gender perspective to ensure full
access to social protection for all women and girls, including those living in poverty,
without discrimination of any kind, and take measures to progressively achieve higher
levels of protection, including for those working in the informal economy;
(qq) Invest in equitable, high-quality, inclusive, affordable and accessible
public services, which has proven to be effective in promoting the rights of all women
and girls, including those living in poverty, and achieving gender equality, and
increase public investment to support the developmen t of human capabilities, address
unpaid care work and support decent work for all women, while recognizing that
public spending on social infrastructure produces positive spillover benefits and
enhances the productivity of the economy and contributes to th e financial
independence of women;
(rr)
Significantly increase public and private sector investment in evidence based initiatives aimed at eliminating the gender digital divide, especially for women
and girls living in poverty, and build more inclusive in novation ecosystems to
promote safe innovation for gender equality and the empowerment of all women and
girls and ensure full respect for all women’s and girls’ human rights in the digital
context, including by using innovative finance mechanisms and tools, inter alia,
mobile banking, online payment platforms and digitalized payment, and developing
specialized financing instruments to strengthen the contribution of women, including
women living in poverty, to economic growth and their continued participatio n in the
digital economy;
(ss)
Enhance efforts to achieve universal and affordable connectivity and
facilitate and promote access to information and communications technology and
safety in digital spaces for women and girls, to enhance women ’s productivity and
mobility in the labour market, while taking measures to prevent and eliminate
violence against women and girls that occurs through or is amplified by the use of
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