Integration of Women in the Development Process

Urges all States to undertake the necessary changes, as appropriate, in their economic and social structures in order to ensure the participation of women, on an equal basis with meo, in the development process;

Invites the relevant organizations within the United Nations system, particularly the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United Nations Development Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to pay special attention to development programmes relating to women, ínter alia, in the fields of agriculture, industry, trade and science and technology;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, on the basis of information received from Governments and relevant organizations of the United Nations system, as well as on the basis of existing studies, a preliminary report, for the consideration of the General Assembly at its thirty-first session, on the extent to which women participate in fields such as agriculture, industry, trade and science and technology, with a view to making recommendations on ways and meaos of increasing and upgrading the participation of women therein;

Urges all Governments to give special attention to the inclusion of the question of the integration of women in the development process in United Nations conferences and meetings on matters which have an impact on the participation of women in development;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution.