(a) Ensure that throughout their lives, girls and women have equal access to education and vocational training, and promote women’s self-esteem at all stages of life; (b) Promote lifelong learning on the part of women, provide possibilities for training and retraining, and equip older women with knowledge of modern and traditional technologies so they remain in the mainstream of society; (c) Promote a positive image of older women in political and economic decision-making through mass media and education in order to ensure older women’s autonomy and productivity; (d) Give special attention to the situation of older women in the context of the International Year of Older Persons (1999). D. Well-being of caregivers Women as caregivers are in demand. In order to support caregivers, Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions should: (a) Attach higher value to unpaid caregiving labour and be aware that caregiving is not in unlimited supply; (b) Ensure that the demand put upon women as caregivers does not increase disproportionately in relation to that put upon men; (c) Provide caregivers with opportunities for occasional respites from their duties and provide caregivers with various services, such as housekeeping help, self-help groups, specialized counselling and training; (d) Promote an equal sharing and better reconciliation of working, employment and caregiving responsibilities between men and women; (e) Consider providing financial assistance to informal caregivers; (f) Support women and men who combine paid work and elder care with measures such as flexible working arrangements, family leave for the care of older dependent family members, and reintegration of caregivers after a career break; (g) Offer a variety of alternative services to older people, such as home care and day-care centres. Resolution 42/5. Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights* The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,60 that the Universal Declaration reiterates the principle of the equal rights of women and men contained in the Charter of the * For the discussion, see chap. III, paras. 65-66. 60 General Assembly resolution 217 A (III). -41-