The third section calls for implementing
economic and social policies for women’s
economic empowerment. Protection of women’s right to work and rights at work is key. It
includes calls for gender-responsive macroeconomic, labour and social policies to promote
inclusive growth, as well as measures to ensure women’s full and productive employment
and decent work. Emphasis is placed on inclusive and gender-responsive social protection
systems, including floors. The section addresses the situation of different groups of women
and girls, and outlines measures to reduce and
redistribute women’s and girls’ disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work. It
calls for improved gender statistics and data
on the formal and informal economy, and
to significantly increase investment to close
resource gaps.
en’s rights to freedom of association, peaceful
assembly and collective bargaining. Actions
address the role of tripartite collaboration,
trade unions, civil society organizations, and
the media, and their contributions to women’s
economic empowerment in the changing
world of work.
The last section calls for strengthening
the role of the private sector in women’s
economic empowerment. This includes
actions to promote a socially responsible and
accountable private sector and workplace
environments and institutional practices
that value all workers and offer them
equal opportunities to reach their full
potential. It calls for facilitation of women’s
entrepreneurship, and the promotion and
protection of women’s right to work and
rights at work in global value chains.
The fourth section targets the growing
informality of work and mobility of women
workers. Actions aim at the transition of
women employed in the informal economy
and in less skilled work to formal employment.
It addresses the need for national gender-responsive migration policies and legislation,
and the elimination of all forms of trafficking
in persons.
The concluding paragraphs (paragraphs 41
to 45) highlight the roles of other actors in
realizing women’s economic empowerment
in the changing world of work. The roles of
national gender equality mechanisms and
of the Commission itself are highlighted. The
entities of the United Nations system are
called upon to support States, and UN-Women
is called upon to continue to play a central
role in promoting gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls and in
supporting Member States, in coordinating
the United Nations system and in mobilizing
civil society, the private sector, employers’
organizations and trade unions and other
relevant stakeholders.
The fifth section aims at managing technological and digital change for women’s
economic empowerment. It calls for women’s access to skills development and decent
work in new and emerging fields, and aims
to enhance women’s participation as users,
content creators, employees, entrepreneurs,
innovators and leaders in these fields. It calls
for measures to enable women to leverage
science and technology for entrepreneurship
and economic empowerment in the changing
world of work.
Governments and other stakeholders are
now called upon to implement the actions
contained in the agreed conclusions to achieve
gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls, and the full realization of
their human rights. UN-Women stands ready
to support all stakeholders in these efforts.
The sixth section targets women’s collective
voice, leadership and decision-making. It
includes specific measures to ensure women’s full, equal and effective participation and
access to leadership and high level positions in
both the public and private sectors, and wom-
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