the respondent countries identified both a priority areas for action on gender equality and b requirements for accelerating implementation of the platform for action achieving gender parity across leadership and decisionmaking positions is seen by the respondent countries as requiring identifying women with the potential to lead investing in building the capacities of women to occupy leadership positions engaging male champions and employing special temporary measures such as quotas affirmative action and targeted funding other identified areas for attention include reducing the gender pay gap accounting for women s unpaid care work advancing the rights of women engaged in the informal sector fostering entrepreneurship and making decent work a reality for more women workers action on violence against women is seen as requiring the existence and implementation of normative frameworks comprised of policies legislation and strategies along with a position of zero tolerance