A/RES/S-23/3 (e) Develop policies and programmes to enhance the employability of women and their access to quality jobs, through improving access to formal, nonformal and vocational training, lifelong learning and retraining, long-distance education, including in information and communications technology and entrepreneurial skills, particularly in developing countries, to support women’s empowerment in the different stages of their lives; (f) Take action to increase women’s participation and to bring about a balanced representation of women and men in all sectors and occupations in the labour market, inter alia, by encouraging the creation or expansion of institutional networks to support the career development and promotion of women; (g) Develop and/or strengthen programmes and policies to support women entrepreneurs, including those engaged in new enterprises, through access to information, training, including vocational training, new technologies, networks, credit and financial services; (h) Initiate positive steps to promote equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and to diminish differentials in incomes between women and men; (i) Encourage and support the education of girls in science, mathematics, new technologies, including information technologies, and technical subjects, and encourage women, including through career advising, to seek employment in highgrowth and high-wage sectors and jobs; (j) Develop policies and implement programmes, particularly for men and boys, on changing stereotypical attitudes and behaviours concerning gender roles and responsibilities to promote gender equality and positive attitudes and behaviour; (k) Strengthen gender-awareness campaigns and gender equality training among women and men, girls and boys to eliminate the persistence of harmful stereotypes; (l) Analyse and respond, as necessary, to the major reasons why men and women may be affected differently by the process of job creation and retrenchment associated with economic transition and structural transformation of the economy, including globalization; (m) Promote gender-sensitivity and social responsibility of the private sector, inter alia, through the management of work time and dissemination of gendersensitive information and advocacy campaigns. 83. (a) Strengthen or establish, where appropriate, national collaborative and regular reporting mechanisms, with the participation of non-governmental organizations, especially women’s organizations, to monitor progress in the implementation of national policies, programmes and benchmarks for achieving gender equality; (b) Support the work of non-governmental organizations and communitybased organizations in helping disadvantaged women, in particular rural women, in gaining access to financial institutions in establishing businesses and other sustainable means of livelihood; (c) Take measures to enable all older women to be actively engaged in all aspects of life, as well as to assume a variety of roles in communities, public life and decision-making, and develop and implement policies and programmes to ensure 31