It is also an investment that is made in the society as a whole.

20. Promote actions involving trade unions and women apos s organizations to increase women apos s participation in the workforce.

F.serv. Women and access to new jobs

The latter recognized the role of the Women's Bureau as the implementing office for the National Women's Council.

The possibility of appointment to a post of director are three times greater for men than for women, and in the case of executive posts it is two times greater for men.

In addition, the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, under the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999, works with employers to assist them to achieve equal opportunity for female employees.

Education for women

This has created more job opportunities for women, especially for those in rural areas and female students.

Recognizing that women of all ages, in particular older women, continue to suffer from discrimination and lack of opportunities, including educational opportunities,

The most important of these are the National Network for the Advancement of Women, the National Network for Rural Women, the Women apos s Network for Grass roots Education, the Women apos s Consortium and the Radio Coordinating Body.

Many women do not have an opportunity to be involved in business.

Plan for equality of opportunities for women in education.

Providing opportunity for greater representation in Government decision making bodies

Another important mechanism to monitor policies for women is the National Council for Women's Rights (CNDM).

122. Machinery was established specifically to increase the quality of participation by women through meetings with training institutes, the National Council of Women and various firms and the preparation of information kits for women.

Strategies for increasing educational and economic opportunities for women

(d) Promoting employment and income generating opportunities for women.

In addition, for some women this burden constitutes a violation of their right to equality of opportunity.

80. The principal body concerned with women s rights at the federal level is the National Council for Women apos s Rights.

(j) Reaffirm gender equality and the need to overcome pervasive gender bias by increasing primary school completion and secondary school access for girls, ensuring secure tenure of property to women, ensuring access to reproductive health services, promoting equal access to labour markets, providing opportunity for greater representation in government decision making bodies, and supporting direct interventions to protect women from violence

Reports show that women who face zero opportunities for employment, are employed in heinous conditions, or are being paid too little to survive, migrate within their own borders and across borders in search of employment.

As far as legal aid is concerned, and the access of women to the institutions where this aid is provided, men and women have an equal access.

quot Plan for equality of opportunity for women in education. quot

Women apos s economic activity and access to credit

The implementation of the National Plan of Action for the Improvement of the Status of Women has fostered the growth of women's potential of the Republic, the expansion of opportunities for women, and the formation of fundamentally new social partnership relations between civil society and bodies of authority.

Governments should focus on increasing the participation of women in the power structure at all levels of society in order to strengthen women s access to education, health and employment.

Recognizing that women of all ages, in particular older women, continue to suffer from discrimination and lack of opportunities,

The Conclusions of the Council of 19 November 2002, in relation to the request to the Commission to report on the Monterrey Follow up, as well as the Council Conclusions of 20 May 2003 and of 27 April 2004 on the first and on the second monitoring reports by the Commission on the follow up to Monterrey

What we need is the kind of media that would provide women the greatest access and encourage their widest participation.

The Constitution and other laws of Jordan prohibited discrimination against and violation of the rights of women, and afforded them equal opportunity before the law throughout society.

The work of the newly created Inter Agency Committee on Women should complement and reinforce the work of the Commission on the Status of Women.

(g) Promoting increased representation of women in Government decision making bodies, including through ensuring their equal opportunity to participate fully in the political process.

196. There is also the Peruvian section of the Latin American Committee for the Defense of Women apos s Rights (CLADEM) which deals with the rights of women.

National mechanisms for the promotion of women

Did the most vulnerable groups of women have access to them?

Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999

Young women and adult women have congregated in urban centres, possibly in search of better working and educational opportunities for themselves and their families.

Ministry of Women Development.

Women face similar constraints for recruitment opportunities.

The programmes for carers are attended by large numbers of women and are helping to enhance women's opportunities and to reduce social isolation.

Reservation of 33 seats for women for most tiers of local bodies and 17 seats in the National Assembly, the Senate and the provincial assemblies.

Women have access to social protection programmes through medical facilities of primary health care and in hospital services, centres and dispensaries. Those programmes are geared both to urban women and rural women.

(c) The Department for the Advancement of Women (DGPM), as the steering organization for public policies in favour of women, is the vehicle for implementing a National Programme to Reduce Violence Against Women.

The objectives of the bodies responsible for ensuring equal opportunities for women, especially the Institute for Women apos s Issues, include promoting improvements in the area of health.

It had passed legislation on equal opportunities for women and on violence against women, including domestic violence, and had established the National Institute for Women (INAMUJER).