the additional demands on women s time created by these programme requirements have a discriminatory impact on women and on their enjoyment of several rights on an equal basis with men eg right to education and health and further deprive them of scarce leisure time these have included the provision of higher transfers for schoolaged girls who are more likely to drop out of school particularly in secondary educationand the provision of free health care for pregnant adolescents and women these features have great potential to improve gender equality within the family