E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 “(b) Address workplace discrimination and inequalities, such as horizontal and vertical occupational segregation, including for promoting women’s participation in high-level management activities and in economic decision-making; “(c) Adopt positive steps to promote equal pay for equal work or work of equal value; “(d) Promote and protect the rights of women workers, and take action to remove structural and legal barriers as well as stereotypic attitudes to gender equality at work, addressing, inter alia, gender bias in recruitment; working conditions; remuneration; occupational segregation and harassment; discrimination in social protection benefits; women’s occupational health and safety; women’s disproportionate representation in the informal sector, and the need to cover this sector in labour regulations and social protection schemes; unequal career opportunities; the situation of domestic workers, including migrant women; and the inadequate sharing of family responsibilities; “5. Calls upon States to enhance women’s access to social protection schemes, throughout the life cycle, including health insurance and pension schemes, giving particular attention to strengthening and expanding social protection to meet the needs of women living in poverty; “6. Urges States to undertake the following actions: “(a) Continue to strengthen policies relevant for women’s economic empowerment aimed at addressing inequality affecting women in access to and achievement in education at all levels, in particular to narrow disadvantages caused by factors such as poverty, geographic location, language, ethnicity and disability; adopting measures to promote non-discriminatory education and broader career choices; scaling up strategies to encourage and support girls’ participation in science and technology; and implementing initiatives to translate the educational achievements of women into employment opportunities; “(b) Enhance the implementation of policies that also have an impact on women’s economic empowerment related to access to education throughout the life cycle, to use of information and communication technologies in programmes for adult education and vocational training, and to the eradication of illiteracy; “7. Urges States to adopt legislation, policies and programmes aimed at eliminating the constraints faced by women in accessing formal financial services, including savings, credit, insurance and money transfer services, giving particular attention to the obstacles faced by poor women living in rural and urban areas in having access to those services, including to microfinancing; “8. Encourages all relevant economic stakeholders, including, as appropriate, States, the private sector, international cooperation agencies, non-governmental organizations and financial institutions, to continue to take gender perspectives into account in the design of loans, grants, projects, programmes and strategies; “9. Calls upon Governments, and encourages, as appropriate, United Nations entities, international cooperation agencies, international financial institutions, the private sector, non-governmental organizations and other civil society actors, to take measures to develop, finance, implement, monitor and 74 10-30576