Appeals to all Governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to recognize in their activities the importance of all interrelated aspects of the role of women in society - as mothers, as participants in economic development and as participants in public life - without underestimating any one of them;
2
Calls uponall Governments to encourage such social and economic development that would secure the participation of women in all spheres of work, equal pay for work of equal value and equal opportunities for education and for professional and vocational training, taking into consideration the necessity of combining all aspects of the role of women in society;
3
Appeals to Governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to promote conditions that would enable women to participate as equal partners with men in public and political life, in the decision-making process at all levels and in the management of different spheres of life in society;
4
Calls uponGovernments to recognize the special status and social importance of motherhood and to take. in the context of their specific abilities and conditions, all necessary measures to promote its protection, including maternity leave with pay, and to provide security for their jobs as long as necessary, so as to allow women, if they so wish, to fulfil their role as mothers without prejudice to their professional and public activities;
5
Appeals to Governments to promote the establishment of appropriate facilities for child-care and education
of children as a means of combining parenthood with economic, political, social, cultural and other activities and thus to provide assistance to women in integrating fully into their societies;
6
Decides to consider the question of the role of women in society at its forty-first session under an item entitled "Forward-looking strategies for the advanc.ement of women to the year 2000".
G_'e_n_era_l_A_sse_m_b_l"--y-_F_o_m_·e_tb_Sess io_n ______________ ________________ _ 9l See also sect I, footnote 17, and sect. V, resolution 40/204.
94 Report of the World Conference on the United Natwns Decad.- fi11 92 Report of the World Conference of the International Women ·s Year.
Women: Equality, Development and Peace. Copenhagen. /4-30 July 1980 Mexico City, 19 June-2 Jul_v 1975 (llmtcd Nations publication, Sales No.
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.80.IV.3 and comgendurn), chap. I.
sect A E.76.IV. I), chap. L 93 Ibid., chap. 11, sect A.
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