Women’s right and the right to food 2013, para. 41
Párrafo- Paragraph text
- Certain investments can significantly reduce the burden that household chores impose on women. In rural areas, such measures include the provision of water services and afforestation projects to reduce the time spent fetching water and fuelwood. In both rural and urban areas, measures would include the establishment or strengthening of child-care services and care for the elderly or persons with illness/disability. By reducing the time poverty of women, their economic opportunities would expand, since it would be easier for them to seek employment outside the household; access incomes and increase their economic independence, which, in turn, would strengthen their bargaining position within the household. In order for such opportunities to be seized, access to education for girls and life-long training must be improved and societal perceptions of gender roles which discriminate against women must be changed. Improved education and employment prospects are mutually reinforcing, as the demand for education (investment in human capital) will increase in proportion to increase in the demand for a qualified female workforce.
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Gender
- Poverty
- Personas afectadas
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Año
- 2013
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2013), A/HRC/22/50, para. 41.
- Paragraph number
- 41
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