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Commission on the Status of Women
61
st
session
Draft Agreed Conclusions
“Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work”
1.
The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and the
declarations adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth, fifteenth and twentieth
anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women.
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2.
The Commission reiterates that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Optional Protocols thereto, as
well as other relevant conventions and treaties, such as the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, provide
an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for realizing gender equality
and the empowerment of women and girls and the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms by all women and girls throughout their life cycle, including women’s
economic empowerment in the changing world of work.
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3.
The Commission recognizes the importance of relevant International Labour Organization (ILO)
standards related to the realization of women’s right to work and rights at work and that are critical
for women’s economic empowerment and recalls the decent work agenda of the ILO and the 1998
ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
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4 bis.
The Commission reaffirms that the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and the
outcome documents of its reviews, and the outcomes of relevant major United Nations conferences
and summits and the follow-up to those conferences and summits, have laid a solid foundation for
sustainable development and that the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action will make a crucial contribution to the implementation of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to women’s economic empowerment.
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4.
The Commission reaffirms the commitments to gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls made at relevant United Nations summits and conferences, including, the
International Conference on Population and Development and its Programme of Action and the
outcome documents of its reviews.
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4ter.
The Commission emphasizes the mutually reinforcing relationship between women’s
economic empowerment in the changing world of work and the full, effective and accelerated
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the gender-responsive
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It acknowledges the important
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contribution of women and girls to sustainable development and reiterates that gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls and women’s full and equal participation and leadership in
the economy are vital to achieve sustainable development, promote peaceful, just and inclusive
societies, enhance sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and productivity, end
poverty in all its forms everywhere and ensure the wellbeing of all.
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4quat.
The Commission reiterates that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development needs to be
implemented in a comprehensive manner, reflecting its universal, integrated and indivisible nature,
taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting
each country’s policy space and leadership while remaining consistent with relevant international
rules and commitments, including by developing cohesive sustainable development strategies to
achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; The Commission affirms that
Governments have the primary responsibility for the follow-up to and review of the 2030 Agenda at
the national, regional and global levels with regard to progress made.
5.
The Commission acknowledges the important role played by regional conventions, instruments
and initiatives in their respective regions and countries in the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls, including for women’s economic empowerment and their
right to work and rights at work, and for the promotion of full and productive employment and
decent work.
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6.
The Commission takes note of the Secretary-General’s
High-level Panel on Women’s Economic
Empowerment.
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7.
The Commission reaffirms that the promotion and protection of, and respect for, the human rights
and fundamental freedoms of all women and girls, including the right to development, which are
universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, are crucial
for women’s economic
empowerment and should be mainstreamed into all policies and programmes aimed at the
eradication of poverty and women’s economic empowerment, and also reaffirms the need to take
measures to ensure that every person is entitled to participate in, contribute to and enjoy economic,
social, cultural and political development, and that equal attention and urgent consideration should
be given to the promotion, protection and full realization of civil, political, economic, social and
cultural rights.
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9.
The Commission also recognizes that structural barriers to women’s economic empowerment
throughout their lifecycle in the changing world of work, including terms and conditions of
employment, recruitment, retention, re-entry, promotion and progression, including to management
or senior positions, retirement and dismissal of women, can be compounded by multiple and
intersecting forms of discrimination in the private and public spheres, all of which can be
exacerbated during economic, financial and humanitarian crises, armed conflict, post-conflict
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situations, natural and man-made disasters, and refugee and internal displacement settings.
14.
The Commission recognizes the importance of fully engaging men and boys as agents and
beneficiaries of change for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women
and girls. It stresses the role of men as allies in the realization of women’s economic empowerment
in the changing world of work and in the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence
against women and girls.
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16.
The Commission acknowledges the important role of national machineries for the advancement
of women and girls, the relevant contribution of national human rights institutions where they exist,
and the important role of civil society, in promoting the economic empowerment of women and their
full and productive employment and decent work, as well as in advancing the implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the gender-responsive implementation of 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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17.
The Commission strongly condemns violence against women and girls in all its forms in public
and private spaces, including harassment in the world of work, including sexual harassment, and
sexual and gender-based violence, domestic violence, trafficking in persons and femicide, among
others, as well as harmful practices such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital
mutilation, and recognizes these are major impediments to the achievement of women’s economic
empowerment, social and economic development, often resulting in,
inter alia,
absenteeism, missed
promotions and job losses, hampering women’s ability to enter, advance and remain in the labour
market and make contributions commensurate with their abilities; and further recognizes that such
violence can impede to economic independence and impose direct and indirect short-term and long-
term costs on society and individuals including, as relevant, lost economic output and psychological
and physical impact, as well as expenses for health care, legal sector, social welfare, and specialized
services, and also recognizes that women’s economic autonomy can expand their options for leaving
abusive relationships;
19.
The Commission acknowledges that structural barriers to gender equality and gender-based
discrimination persist in labour markets worldwide, which impose greater constraints on women in
balancing work and family responsibilities and that these structural barriers need to be eliminated in
order for women to be able to participate fully in society and equally in the world of work. It also
recognizes that progress in achieving women's economic empowerment in the changing world of
work has been insufficient, impeding the realization of women’s full potential and the full enjoyment
of their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
20.
The Commission recognizes that the sharing of family responsibilities creates an enabling family
environment for women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work, which
contributes to development, that women and men make a great contribution to the welfare of their
family, and that in particular women´s contribution to the home, including unpaid care and domestic
work, which is still not adequately recognized, generates human and social capital essential for
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social and economic development.
21.
The Commission expresses its concern about the continuing significant gender gaps in labour
force participation and leadership, wages, income, pensions and social protection and access to
economic and productive resources. It also expresses its concern about the structural barriers to
women’s economic empowerment, including discriminatory laws and policies, gender stereotypes
and negative social norms. It is also concerned about unequal working conditions, limited
opportunities for career advancement, as well as about the growing high incidence of informal and
non-standard forms of employment in many regions.
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21 bis.
The Commission expresses concern about occupational segregation, including its vertical and
horizontal dimensions, in all sectors. It recognizes that expanding equal opportunities for women and
men in the labor market, decent work, skills enhancement, participation and leadership in high level
positions for women can address the root causes of segregation in working life, and empower
women and men to enter professions in the public and private sectors that are dominated by the
opposite sex.
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37.
The Commission recognizes that women constitute the majority of those employed in the health
and social sectors, that by working in these sectors they make important contributions to sustainable
development, and that investments in these sectors could enhance women’s economic empowerment
and transform unpaid and informal care roles into decent work by improving their working
conditions and wages and by creating opportunities for their skills enhancement and career
advancement.
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22.
The Commission expresses concern that the feminization of poverty persists, and emphasizes
that the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is an
indispensable requirement for women’s economic empowerment and sustainable
development. The
Commission acknowledges the mutually reinforcing links between the achievement of gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and the eradication of poverty, and the need to
ensure an adequate standard of living for women and girls throughout their life cycle, including
through social protection systems.
22 bis.
The Commission also expresses concern over the persistently low wages earned by women
workers which frequently prevent women from providing decent and dignified living conditions for
themselves and their families, and recognizes the important role of trade unions and social dialogue
in addressing persistent economic inequalities, including the gender pay gap.
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23.
The Commission reiterates its concern over the challenge climate change poses to the
achievement of sustainable development and that women and girls, who face inequality and
discrimination, are often disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change and other
environmental issues, including, inter alia, desertification, deforestation, dust storms, natural
disasters, persistent drought, extreme weather events, sea level rise, coastal erosion and ocean
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acidification. Furthermore, the Commission recalls the Paris Agreement, adopted under the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and reaffirms that countries should, when
taking action to address climate change, respect, promote, and consider gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls.
24.
The Commission recognizes that globalization presents both challenges and opportunities for
women’s economic empowerment. It also recognizes that there is a need to make broad and
sustained efforts to create a shared future, based upon our common humanity, to ensure globalization
is fully inclusive and equitable for all, including women and girls, and becomes an increasingly
positive force for women’s economic empowerment;
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27.
The Commission reaffirms that the realization of the right to education, as well as access to
quality and inclusive education, contributes to the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls. It notes with concern the lack of progress in closing gender
gaps in access to, retention in, and completion of secondary and tertiary education and emphasizes
the importance of lifelong learning opportunities. It recognizes that new technologies, which are
changing the structure of labour markets provide new and different employment opportunities that
require skills for women and girls ranging from basic digital literacy to advanced technical skills in
science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and information and communications
technology (ICT).
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28.
The Commission recognizes the importance of a conducive external environment in support of
national efforts towards economic empowerment of women, which includes mobilization of
adequate financial resources, capacity building and transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms
that in turn would enhance the use of enabling technologies to promote women's entrepreneurship
and economic empowerment.
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29.
The Commission recognizes the worldwide efforts in bridging gender gaps in the labor markets.
However, the Commission notes additional progress may be made through temporary special
measures to ensure gender equality in the labor force.
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30.
The Commission reaffirms the importance of significantly increased investment to close resource
gaps for achieving gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls including women’s
economic empowerment, including through the mobilization of financial resources from all sources,
including domestic and international resource mobilization and allocation, the full implementation of
official development assistance commitments and by combating illicit financial flows, to build on
progress achieved and strengthen international cooperation, including North-South, South-South and
triangular cooperation, bearing in mind that South-South cooperation is not a substitute for, but
rather a complement to, North-South cooperation.
31.
The Commission recognizes that women's enhanced participation in the labour market, economic
independence and access to, and ownership of economic resources contribute to sustainable and
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inclusive economic growth, prosperity, competitiveness, and the well-being of societies.
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32.
The Commission recognizes that women’s equal economic rights, economic empowerment and
independence are essential to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. It underlines the importance of
undertaking legislative and other reforms to realize the equal rights of women and men, as well as
girls and boys where applicable, to access economic and productive resources, including land and
natural resources, property and inheritance rights, appropriate new technology and financial services,
including microfinance, and equal opportunities for women for full and productive employment and
decent work, and equal pay for equal work or work of equal value. The Commission acknowledges
the positive contribution of migrant women workers to inclusive growth and sustainable
development.
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35.
The Commission recognizes that women and girls undertake a disproportionate share of unpaid
care and domestic work, including caring for children, older persons, persons with disabilities,
persons living with HIV and AIDS and that such uneven distribution of responsibilities is a
significant constraint on women’s and girl’s completion or progress in education, on women’s entry
and re-entry and advancement in the paid labour market and on their economic opportunities and
entrepreneurial activities, and can result in gaps in both social protection and pension. The
Commission stresses the need to recognize, reduce and redistribute the disproportionate share of
unpaid care and domestic work by promoting the equal sharing of responsibilities between women
and men and by prioritizing, inter alia, social protection policies and infrastructure development.
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36.
The Commission recognizes that the full realization of the right to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health is vital to women’s and girls’ lives and wellbeing
and their ability to participate in public and private life, and is crucial for gender equality and the
empowerment of women, including their economic empowerment and full and equal participation
and leadership in the economy.
38.
The Commission recalls its Multi-year programme of work for 2016-2019, according to which it
considered “the empowerment of indigenous women” as its focus area at its sixty-first
session and it
will consider “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of
rural women and girls” as its priority theme at its
sixty-second session.
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39.
The Commission recognizes the important role and contribution of rural women and girls to
poverty eradication, and sustainable development, and to food security and nutrition, especially in
poor and vulnerable households. The Commission also recognizes the importance of the
empowerment of rural women and their full, equal and effective participation at all levels of
decision-making.
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40.
The Commission recognizes that the economic empowerment, inclusion and development of
indigenous women, including through the establishment of indigenous-owned businesses, can enable
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them to improve their social, cultural and civil and political engagement, achieve greater economic
independence and build more sustainable and resilient communities, and noting the contribution of
indigenous peoples to the broader economy.
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41.
The Commission recognizes the important contribution of women and girls of African descent to
the development of societies and the promotion of mutual understanding and multiculturalism,
recalls the commitment of States to mainstream a gender perspective when designing and monitoring
public policies, taking into account the specific needs and realities of women and girls of African
descent, bearing in mind the Programme of Activities for the implementation of the International
Decade for People of African Descent. The Commission also recognizes the importance of the
economic empowerment of women of African descent
.
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42.
The Commission recognizes the positive contribution of migrant women and girls, in particular
women migrant workers, to sustainable development in countries of origin, transit and destination. It
underlines the value and dignity of migrant women's labour in all sectors, including the labour of
domestic and care workers.
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43.
The Commission recalls the need to address the special situation and vulnerability of migrant
women and girls. It is concerned that many migrant women, particularly those who are employed in
the informal economy and in less skilled work are especially vulnerable to abuse and exploitation,
underlining in this regard the obligation of States to protect the human rights of migrants so as to
prevent and address abuse and exploitation.
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44.
The Commission expresses its concern about the low labor force participation rate of women
with disabilities, who face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, and encounter
structural, physical and attitudinal barriers hindering their access to and participation in the
workplace on an equal basis with others, and emphasizes the need for measures to ensure that the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is inclusive of persons with
disabilities.
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46.
The Commission welcomes the major
contributions made by civil society, including women’s
and community-based
organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders and girls’ and
youth-led organizations, in placing the interests, needs and visions of women and girls on local,
national, regional and international agendas, including the 2030 Agenda, and recognizes the
importance of having an open, inclusive and transparent engagement with them in the
implementation of measures on women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.
48.
The Commission urges Governments at all levels and as appropriate, with the relevant entities of
the United Nations system, and international and regional organizations, within their respective
mandates and bearing in mind national priorities, and invites civil society, the private sector,
employer organizations and trade unions, as applicable, to take the following actions:
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Strengthening normative and legal frameworks
d.
Consider ratifying or acceding to, as a matter of particular priority, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, and the Optional Protocols thereto, limit the extent of any reservations,
formulate any such reservations as precisely and as narrowly as possible to ensure that no
reservations are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Conventions, review their
reservations regularly with a view to withdrawing them, withdraw reservations that are
contrary to the object and purpose of the relevant Convention and implement the
Conventions fully by, inter alia, putting in place effective national legislation and policies;
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e.
Consider ratification and, for those who have done so, implementation of ILO core
conventions: Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention,
1948 (No. 87), Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98),
Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957
(No. 105), Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138),Worst Forms of Child Labour
Convention, 1999 (No. 182), Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100),
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), in order to
contribute to the realization of women’s right
to work and rights at work;
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g.
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 and access to labour markets, inter alia, 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 their lifecycles
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; and provide, as appropriate, effective means
of redress and access to justice in cases of non-compliance and accountability for violation
and abuses of human rights;
h.
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;
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i.
Eliminate occupational segregation by addressing structural barriers, gender stereotypes
and negative social norms, promoting women’s equal access to and participation in labour
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markets, education and training, supporting women to diversify their educational and
occupational choices in emerging fields and growing economic sectors, such as science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and information and communications
technologies (ICT), recognizing the value of sectors that have large numbers of women
workers;
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j.
Enact, strengthen or 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 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, gender pay audits, and certification and review of pay
practices and increased availability of data and analysis on the gender pay gap;
l.
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 non-compliance; 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 awareness-raising 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;
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m.
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, 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 furthering their economic opportunities;
o.
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 services, such as
parental and other leave schemes, increased flexibility in working arrangements, support for
breastfeeding mothers, development of infrastructure and technology, and the provision of
services, including affordable, accessible and quality childcare and care facilities for children
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and other dependents, and promoting men’s equitable responsibilities with respect to
household work as fathers and caregivers which creates an enabling environment for
women's economic empowerment in the changing world of work;
n.3
Refrain from promulgating and applying any unilateral economic, financial or trade
measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that
impede the full achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing
countries;
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Strengthening education, training and skills development
a.
Promote and respect women’s and girls’ right to education throughout their life cycle at
all levels, especially for those who are the most left behind, by providing universal access to
quality education, by ensuring inclusive, equal and non-discriminatory quality education,
promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, completion of primary and secondary
education and eliminating gender disparities in access to all areas of secondary and tertiary
education, promoting financial and digital literacy, ensuring that women and girls have equal
access to career development, training, scholarships and fellowships, and adopting positive
action to build women’s and girls’ leadership skills and influence, and adopt measures that
promote, respect and guarantee the safety of women and girls in the school environment and
that support women and girls with disabilities at all levels of education and training;
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b.
Mainstream a gender perspective into education and training programmes, including
science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), eradicate female illiteracy and facilitate
effective transition from education or unemployment to work including through skills
development to enable women’s and girls’ active participation in economic, social and
cultural development,
and women’s active participation in governance and decision-making
at all levels, and create conditions that facilitate women’s full participation and integration in
the formal economy, and develop gender-sensitive curricula for educational programmes at
all levels, inter alia, to address the root causes of segregation in working life;
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b bis.
Place enhanced emphasis on quality education, including communications and
technology education, where available, for girls, including catch-up and literacy education
for those who did not receive formal education, special initiatives for keeping girls in school
through post-primary education, including those who are already married or pregnant, to
promote access to skills and entrepreneurship training for young women and to tackle gender
stereotypes, in order to ensure that young women entering the labour market have
opportunities to obtain full and productive employment, equitable compensation and decent
work;
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c.
Ensure that pregnant adolescents and young mothers, as well as single mothers, can
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continue and complete their education, and in this regard, design, implement, and, where
applicable, revise educational policies to allow them to remain in and return to school,
providing them with access to healthcare and social services and support, including childcare
and breastfeeding facilities and crèches, and to education programmes with accessible
locations, flexible schedules and distance education, including e-learning, and bearing in
mind the important role and responsibilities of, and challenges faced by fathers, including
young fathers, in this regard;
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Implementing economic and social policies for women’s economic empowerment
q. and r.
Adopt, implement, and monitor the impact of, gender-responsive macroeconomic,
labour and social policies that promote inclusive growth, women’s full and productive
employment and decent work, protect women’s right to work and rights at work; mitigate
the effects of economic recession;
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s.
Take concrete steps towards eliminating the practice of gender based price differentiation,
also known as the “pink tax”, whereby goods and services intended for or marketed to
women and girls cost more than similar goods and services intended for or marketed to men
and boys;
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t.
Take concrete steps to support and institutionalize a gender-responsive approach to public
financial management, including gender-responsive budgeting and tracking across all sectors
of public expenditure, to address gaps in resourcing for gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, and ensure that all national and sectoral plans and policies
for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are fully costed and adequately
resourced to ensure their effective implementation;
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u.
Promote decent paid care and domestic work for women and men in the public and private
sector, by providing social protection, safe working conditions and equal pay for equal work
or work of equal value, thus facilitating the transition of informal workers, including those
engaged in informal paid care and domestic work, to the formal economy;
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v.
Improve the security and safety of women on the journey to and from work and the
security and safety of women and girls on the journey to and from educational facilities
through gender-responsive rural development strategies and urban planning and
infrastructure, including sustainable, safe, accessible and affordable public transportation
systems, street lighting, and separate and adequate
sanitation facilities, to facilitate women’s
access to places, products, services and economic opportunities;
w.
Optimize fiscal expenditures for gender-responsive social protection and care
infrastructure, such as equitable, quality, accessible and affordable early childhood education,
child care, elder care, health care, care and social services for persons with disabilities and
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persons living with HIV and AIDS, which meet the needs of both caregivers and those in
need of care, bearing in mind that social protection policies also play a critical role in
reducing poverty and inequality, supporting inclusive growth and gender equality;
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x.
Work towards establishing or strengthening inclusive and gender-responsive social
protection systems, including floors, to ensure full access to social protection for all without
discrimination of any kind, and take measures to progressively achieve higher levels of
protection, including facilitating the transition from informal to formal work;
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y.
Promote legal, administrative and policy measures that ensure women’s full and equal
access to pensions, through contributory and/or non-contributory schemes, and independent of
their employment trajectories, and reduce gender gaps in benefit levels.
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z.
Take steps to achieve the full realization of the right to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health by improving access to timely, affordable
and quality health systems for women and girls through gender-sensitive national strategies
and public-health policies and programmes that are comprehensive, affordable and better
targeted to addressing their needs, as well as work to improve access to paid leave and social
security benefits, particularly in cases of retirement, unemployment, illness, disability, ageing
and incapacity to work, and develop and implement occupational health and safety measures,
including appropriate measures to provide special protection to women during pregnancy in
types of work proved to be harmful to them;
Merged aa and bb.
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and
reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the
outcome documents of their review conferences, including universal access to sexual and
reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education,
and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes, and
recognizing that human rights include their right to have control over and decide freely and
responsibly on all matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health,
free of coercion, discrimination and violence, as a contribution to the fulfillment of their
economic rights, independence and empowerment;
cc.
Recognize the social significance of maternity, paternity, motherhood, fatherhood and the
role of parents in the upbringing of children, and promote paid maternity, paternity or parental
leave and adequate social security benefits for both women and men, take appropriate steps to
ensure they are not discriminated against when availing themselves of such benefits and
promote men's awareness and use of such opportunities to enable women to increase their
participation in the labour market;
dd.
Undertake all appropriate measures to recognize, reduce and redistribute women’s and
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girls’ disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work
by promoting policies and
initiatives supporting the reconciliation of work and family life and the equal sharing of
responsibilities between women and men, through flexibility in working arrangements without
reductions in labour and social protections, provision of infrastructure, technology, and public
services, such as water and sanitation, renewable energy, transport, information technologies,
as well as accessible, affordable and quality childcare and care facilities and by challenging
gender stereotypes
and negative social norms and promoting men’s participation and
responsibilities as fathers and caregivers;
AD REF
ee.
Take steps to measure the value of unpaid care and domestic work in order to determine its
contribution to the national economy, for example through periodic time use surveys, and
include such measurement in the formulation of gender-responsive economic and social
policies;
AD REF
58.
Fully engage men and boys as strategic partners and allies in achieving gender equality
and the empowerment of all women and girls by designing and implementing national policies
and programmes that address the roles and responsibilities of men and boys, including the
equal sharing of responsibilities in caregiving and domestic work, and encourages men and
boys to engage fully as agents and beneficiaries of change with the aim to eliminate all forms
of discrimination and violence against women and girls in both the public and private spheres,
by understanding and addressing the root causes of gender inequality, such as unequal power
relations, gender stereotypes and negative social norms that view women and girls as
subordinate to men and boys, as a contribution to women’s economic empowerment in the
changing world of work;
hh.
Promote the entry, re-entry into and advancement in labour markets of all women,
including through policies and programmes aimed to the elimination of structural barriers and
stereotypes that young women face in the transition from school to work and also to address
the challenges faced by women returning from care-related career breaks and by older women,
providing access to technical and vocational skills training, entrepreneurship development,
job-matching and career guidance, including towards high wage and high growth occupations.
AD REF
ff.
Promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls with disabilities and
the full realization of their human rights and their inclusion in society, and take measures to
ensure that women with disabilities have access to decent work on an equal basis with others
in the public and private sectors, that labour markets and work environments are open,
inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities, and take positive measures to increase
employment of women with disabilities and eliminate discrimination on the basis of disability
with regard to all matters concerning all forms of employment, including recruitment,
retention, promotion, and safe, secure, and healthy working conditions, in consultation with
relevant national mechanisms and organizations of persons with disabilities;
AD REF
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ll.
Strengthen and support the contributions of rural women and women farmers to the
agricultural sector, food security and nutrition and the economic well-being of their families
and communities, and to enhancing agricultural and rural development, including small scale
farming, and ensure that they have equal access to agricultural technologies, through
investments and transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms, and innovation in small-
scale agricultural production and distribution, supported by integrated and multisectoral
policies that improve productive capacity and incomes and strengthen their resilience, and
address the existing gaps in and barriers to trading their agricultural products in local,
regional and international markets;
AD REF
mm.
Support remunerative non-agricultural employment for rural women, by taking
measures to improve working conditions, increase access to productive resources, invest in
relevant infrastructure, public services and time and labour saving technologies, promote
rural women’s paid employment in the formal economy and address the structural and
underlying causes of the difficult conditions faced by rural women;
AD REF
nn merged with oo.
Take measures to promote the economic empowerment of indigenous
women including by ensuring access to quality and inclusive education and meaningful
participation in the economy by addressing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination
they face and barriers, including violence, and promote their participation in relevant
decision-making processes at all levels and in all areas, and respecting and protecting their
traditional and ancestral knowledge, and noting the importance of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, for indigenous women and girls;
AD REF
pp.
Develop and adopt gender-responsive strategies on mitigation and adaptation to climate
change, in line with international and regional instruments, to support the resilience and
adaptive capacities of women and girls to respond to the adverse effects of climate change,
with the aim to strengthen their economic empowerment, through inter alia, the promotion of
their health and well being, as well as access to sustainable livelihoods, including in the
context of a just transition of the workforce;
AD REF
Merger 53 and 53bis.
Continue developing and enhancing standards and methodologies at
national and international levels to improve the collection, analysis and dissemination of
gender statistics
and data on the formal and informal economy, inter alia, on women’s
poverty, income and asset distribution within households, unpaid care work, women’s access
to, control and ownership of assets and productive resources, and women’s participation
at
all levels of decision-making,
to measure progress for women’s economic empowerment in
the changing world of work, by strengthening national statistical capacity, including by
enhancing the mobilization, from all sources, of financial and technical assistance for
developing countries to systematically design, collect and ensure access to high-quality,
reliable and timely data disaggregated by sex, age, income, and other characteristics relevant
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in national contexts;
54. Promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by reaffirming the
commitments made in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference
on Financing for Development, pursuing policy coherence and an enabling environment for
sustainable development at all levels and by all actors and reinvigorating the global
partnership for sustainable development;
55. Take steps to significantly increase investment to close resource gaps, including through
the mobilization of financial resources from all sources, including public, private, domestic
and international resource mobilization and allocation, including by enhancing revenue
administration through modernized, progressive tax systems, improved tax policy, more
efficient tax collection and increased priority on gender equality and the empowerment of
women in official development assistance to build on progress achieved, and ensure that
official development assistance is used effectively, to accelerate the achievement of women’s
economic empowerment in the changing world of work;
56. Urge developed countries to fully implement their respective official development
assistance commitments, including the commitment made by many developed countries to
achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of their gross national income for official development
assistance to developing countries and the target of 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of their gross
national income for official development assistance to least developed countries, and
encourage developing countries to build on the progress achieved in ensuring that official
development assistance is used effectively to help meet development goals and targets and
help them, inter alia, to promote women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of
work;
57. Strengthen international cooperation, including North-South, South-South and triangular
cooperation, bearing in mind that South-South cooperation is not a substitute for, but rather a
complement to, North-South cooperation, and invite all States to enhance South-South and
triangular cooperation focusing on shared development priorities, with the involvement of all
relevant stakeholders in government, civil society and the private sector, while noting that
national ownership and leadership in this regard are indispensable for the achievement of
gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
Addressing the growing informality of work and mobility of women workers
rr.
Promote the transition to formal employment for women employed in informal paid
work, home-based work and in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as work
in the agricultural sector and own-account and part-time work by extending social protection
and wages that allow for an adequate standard of living, and take measures to address unsafe
and unhealthy working conditions that can characterize work in the informal economy by
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promoting occupational safety and health protection to workers in the informal economy;
AD
REF
ss.
Adopt national gender-responsive migration policies and legislation, in line with relevant
obligations under international law, to promote the economic empowerment of women
migrant workers in all sectors; and protect their human rights, regardless of migration status.
Recognize the skills and education of women migrant workers, and as appropriate, facilitate
their productive employment, decent work and integration into the labour force including in
the fields of education and science and technology;
AD REF
tt.
Recognize the significant contribution and leadership of women in migrant communities
and take appropriate steps to ensure their full, equal and meaningful participation in the
development of local solutions and opportunities, and the importance of protection of labour
rights and a safe environment for migrant workers and those in precarious employment,
protection of women migrant workers in all sectors and promotion of labour mobility,
including circular migration, in line with the New York Declaration for Refugees and
Migrants;
AD REF
xx.
Devise, strengthen and implement comprehensive anti-trafficking strategies that integrate
a human rights and sustainable development perspective, and enforce, as appropriate, legal
frameworks, in a gender and age-sensitive manner, to combat and eliminate all forms of
trafficking in persons; raise public awareness of the issue of trafficking in persons, in
particular women and girls; take measures to reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to
modern slavery and sexual exploitation; and enhance international cooperation, inter alia, to
counter with a view to eliminating the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation,
including sexual exploitation and forced labour;
AD REF
Managing technological
and digital change for women’s economic empowerment
yy.
Support women’s access, throughout their life cycle, to skills development and decent
work in new and emerging fields, by expanding the scope of education and training
opportunities in, inter alia, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM),
information and communication technologies (ICT) and digital fluency, and enhance
women’s and, as appropriate, girls’ participation as users, content creators, employees,
entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders;
AD REF
zz.
Strengthen science and technology education policies and curricula, so that they are
relevant to the needs of and benefit women and girls, encourage investment and research in
sustainable technology, particularly to strengthen the capacities of developing countries, to
enable women to leverage science and technology for entrepreneurship and economic
empowerment in the changing world of works;
AD REF
Strengthening women’s collective voice, leadership and decision-making
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ddd.
Take measures to ensure women’s full, equal and effective participation and access to
leadership and high level positions, including through temporary special measures, as
appropriate, in economic decision-making structures and institutions at all levels, as well as
in enterprises, corporate boards and trade unions;
AD REF
eee.
Ensure that women in armed conflict and post-conflict situations, women affected by
natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies and internally displaced women are
empowered to effectively and meaningfully participate in leadership and decision-making
processes and that the human rights of all women and girls are fully respected and protected
in response and recovery strategies;
AD REF
fff.
Recognize also that the empowerment of and investment in women and girls, which is
critical for economic growth, and the achievement of all Sustainable Development Goals,
including the eradication of poverty and extreme poverty, as well as the meaningful
participation of women in decision-making, are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination
and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human
rights, and recognize further that empowering girls requires their active participation in
decision-making processes and as agents of change in their own lives and communities,
including
through girls’ organizations with the active support and engagement of their
parents, legal guardians, families and care providers, boys and men, as well as the wider
community;
AD REF
ggg.
Protect and promote the rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and
collective bargaining to enable all women workers to organize and join unions, cooperatives
and business associations while recognizing that those legal entities are created, modified and
dissolved in accordance with national law and
taking into account each State’s international
legal
obligations;
AD
REF
hhh.
Support tripartite collaboration among Governments, employers and women workers
and their organizations, including trade unions or other representative organizations, to
prevent and remove barriers to gender equality and the empowerment of women in the world
of work;
AD REF
iii.
Encourage and support women’s participation and leadership in trade unions, workers’
organizations and employers’ organizations, and urge all leaders of
these organizations to
effectively represent the interests of all women workers;
AD REF
51.
Promote a safe and enabling environment for all civil society actors and increase
resources and support for grass-roots, local, national, regional and global women’s
and civil
society organizations so that they can fully contribute to women’s economic empowerment in
the changing world of work;
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jjj.
Recognize the important role the media can play in the achievement of gender equality
and women’s economic empowerment,
including through non-discriminatory and gender-
sensitive coverage and by eliminating gender stereotypes, including those perpetuated by
commercial advertisements; and encourage training of those who work in the media and the
development and strengthening of self-regulatory mechanisms to promote balanced and non-
stereotypical portrayals of women and girls, which contribute to the empowerment of women
and girls and the elimination of discrimination against and exploitation of women and girls;
AD REF
Strengthening
private sector role in women’s economic empowerment
kkk.
Promote a socially responsible and accountable private sector that acts in line with,
among others, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the
United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, the International Labour
Organization “Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work”, labour,
environmental and health standards, and the Women’s Empowerment Principles established
by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-
Women) and the Global Compact, in order to promote the economic empowerment of
women in the changing world of work and achieve gender equality and the empowerment of
women and girls and the realization of their full and equal enjoyment of all human rights
and fundamental freedoms;
AD REF
lll.
Encourage workplace environments and institutional practices that value all workers and
offer them equal opportunities to reach their full potential, including through ensuring that
gender equality and gender mainstreaming are considered a necessary dimension of human
resources management, in particular for the modernization of scientific and technological
organizations and institutions both in the public and private sectors;
AD REF
mmm.
Encourage and facilitate women’s entrepreneurship, including by improving access
to financing and investment opportunities, tools of trade, business development, and
training, in order to increase the share of trade and procurement
from women’s enterprises,
including micro, small and medium, cooperatives and self-help groups in both the public
and private sectors;
AD REF
nnn.
Work with the private sector to take into account a gender perspective while
undertaking value chain analyses to inform the design and implementation of policies and
programmes that promote and protect women’s right to work and rights at work in global
value chains;
AD REF
59 alt.
The Commission recognizes its primary role for the follow-up to the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action in which its work is grounded and stresses that it is critical to address and
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integrate gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls throughout national, regional
and global reviews of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and to ensure synergies between the
follow-up to the Beijing Platform for Action and the gender-responsive follow-up to the 2030
Agenda.
50.
The Commission calls upon Governments to strengthen as appropriate, the authority and
capacity, of national mechanisms for promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women
and girls, at all levels, which should be placed at the highest possible level of government with
sufficient funding, and to mainstream a gender perspective across all relevant national and local
institutions, including labour, economic and financial government agencies, in order to ensure that
national planning, decision-making, policy formulation and implementation, budgeting processes
and institutional structures contribute to women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of
work.
AD REF
52.
The Commission recalls General Assembly resolution 70/163 and encourages the Secretariat to
continue its consideration of how to enhance the participation, including at the sixty-second session
of the Commission, of national human rights institutions fully compliant with the Paris Principles,
where they exist, in compliance with the rules of procedure of the Economic and Social Council.
59.
The Commission calls upon the United Nations system entities, within their respective mandates,
to support States, upon their request, in their efforts to achieve women’s economic empowerment in
the changing world of work.
59 bis.
The Commission calls upon UN-Women to continue to play a central role in promoting
gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and in supporting Governments and
national women’s machineries, upon their request, in coordinating the United Nations system and in
mobilizing
civil society, the private sector, employers’ organizations and trade unions and other
relevant stakeholders, at all levels, in support of the full, effective and accelerated implementation of
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the gender-responsive implementation of the
2030 Agenda towards women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.
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