G. Promoting change through international cooperation to establish day-care nurseries, particularly in areas where there is a greater concentration of poverty, in order to facilitate the training of mothers or their entry into paid employment. 19. The Commission on the Status of Women recom- mends to the Economic and Social Council that all the strategies and policies of the United Nations and of Member States designed to promote gender equality should take fully into account child and dependant care, sharing of family work and responsibilities between men and women, and unremunerated work, as integral parts of the concept of equality between men and women. 16. Child and dependant care can constitute a major source of new jobs for women and men. 17. The burden of domestic work needs to be eased by making use of appropriate technologies to provide drinking water and an energy supply. F. Developing research and information exchange 20. The Commission on the Status of Women recom- mends to the Economic and Social Council that the suggestions set out above be taken into account in defining the policies of the United Nations system, as well as those of Member States. ■ 18. Research could be conducted drawing on the capa- bilities of the various United Nations organizations, particularly in the following areas, when compatible with the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women, 1996-2001: (a) Changes in the situation and attitudes of men and women with regard to the reconciliation of family and professional life and the sharing of family responsibilities - in particular, a study should be conducted in the context of subSaharan Africa; (b) Compilation of data on the unremunerated work which is already taken into account in the System of National Accounts, for example in agriculture and other types of non-mercantile production activity; (c) C  ollection and exchange of information on the different systems that exist for alimony payments; (d) Unremunerated work which addresses the measuring and value of this work, within the framework of the implementation of the Platform for Action; (e) Time-use surveys of unremunerated work of women and men, with a view to measuring its impact on the use and monitoring of economic and social policies. Source: United Nations document E/1996/26 3