to contribute to the realization of women’s right to
work and rights at work;
pay gap, provide in this regard effective means of
redress and access to justice in cases of non-compliance, and promote the implementation of equal pay
policies through, for example, social dialogue, collective bargaining, job evaluations, awareness-raising
campaigns, pay transparency and gender pay audits,
as well as certification and review of pay practices
and increased availability of data and analysis on the
gender pay gap;
(c) Enact or strengthen and enforce laws and regulatory
frameworks that ensure equality and prohibit
discrimination against women, in particular in
the world of work, including their participation in
and access to labour markets, inter alia, laws and
frameworks that prohibit discrimination based on
pregnancy, motherhood, marital status or age, as well
as other multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination; take appropriate measures to ensure that
women, throughout the life cycle, have equal opportunities for decent work in the public and private
sectors, while recognizing that temporary special
measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality
between men and women should not be considered
discrimination; address the root causes of gender
inequality, gender stereotypes and unequal power
relations between men and women; and provide, as
appropriate, effective means of redress and access to
justice in cases of non-compliance and accountability
for violations and abuses of human rights;
(g) Enact or strengthen and enforce laws and policies
to eliminate all forms of violence and harassment
against women of all ages in the world of work, in
public and private spheres, and provide means of
effective redress in cases of noncompliance; ensure
safety for women in the workplace; address the
multiple consequences of violence and harassment,
considering that violence against women and girls
is an obstacle to gender equality and women’s
economic empowerment; encourage awarenessraising activities, including through publicizing the
societal and economic costs of such violence; and
develop measures to promote re-entry of victims and
survivors of violence into the labour market;
(d) Enact legislation and undertake reforms to realize
the equal rights of women and men, and where
applicable girls and boys, to access economic and
productive resources, including access to, ownership
of and control over land, property and inheritance
rights, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including credit,
banking and microfinance, as well as equal access
to justice and legal assistance in this regard, and
ensure women’s legal capacity and equal rights with
men to conclude contracts;
(h) Develop and apply gender-sensitive measures for
the protection from, prevention and punishment
of all forms of violence against women and girls
in public and private spaces, including domestic
violence, sexual harassment, trafficking in persons
and femicide, among others, so as to promote the
realization of women’s and girls’ economic rights
and empowerment and facilitate women’s full and
productive employment and contribution to the
economy, including by facilitating changes in gender
stereotypes and negative social norms, attitudes and
behaviours, inter alia, through promoting community
mobilization, women’s economic autonomy and the
engagement of men and boys, particularly community leaders; and explore, where possible, measures
to respond to the consequences of violence against
women, such as employment protection, time off
from work, awareness training, psychosocial services
and social safety nets for women and girls who are
victims and survivors of violence, and to foster their
economic opportunities;
(e) Eliminate occupational segregation by addressing
structural barriers, gender stereotypes and negative
social norms, promoting women’s equal access to
and participation in labour markets and in education
and training, supporting women so as to diversify
their educational and occupational choices in
emerging fields and growing economic sectors, such
as science, technology, engineering and mathematics
and information and communications technology,
recognizing the value of sectors that have large
numbers of women workers;
(i) Strengthen laws and regulatory frameworks
that promote the reconciliation and sharing of
work and family responsibilities for women and
men, including by designing, implementing and
promoting family-responsive legislation, policies and
(f) Enact or strengthen and enforce laws and regulations that uphold the principle of equal pay for equal
work or work of equal value in the public and private
sectors as a critical measure to eliminate the gender
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