Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00630:section:116:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00630
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Provision Reference: s 116 (pt 5/21)
Character Range: 146892–149890

women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim and, in particular, by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaption of teaching methods;

      (d) The same opportunities to benefit from scholarships and other study grants;

      (e) The same opportunities for access to programmes of continuing education, including adult and functional literacy programmes, particularly those aimed at reducing, at the earliest possible time, any gap in education existing between men and women;

      (f) The reduction of female student drop‑out rates and the organisation of programmes for girls and women who have left school prematurely;

      (g) The same opportunities to participate actively in sports and physical education;

      (h) Access to specific educational information to help to ensure the health and well‑being of families, including information and advice on family planning.

Article 11

1. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the field of employment in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, the same rights, in particular:

      (a) The right to work as an inalienable right of all human beings;

      (b) The right to the same employment opportunities, including the application of the same criteria for selection in matters of employment;

      (c) The right to free choice of profession and employment, the right to promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service and the right to receive vocational training and retraining, including apprenticeships, advanced vocational training and recurrent training;

      (d) The right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work;

      (e) The right to social security, particularly in cases of retirement, unemployment, sickness, invalidity and old age and other incapacity to work, as well as the right to paid leave;

      (f) The right to protection of health and to safety in working conditions, including the safeguarding of the function of reproduction.

2. In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures:

      (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or of maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status;

      (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances;

      (c) To encourage the provision of the necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life, in particular