10.2 Ensuring the equality of opportunity and learning conditions for men and women

State and local government agencies are required to promote gender equality systematically and purposefully. If necessary, they are required to change the conditions and circumstances which hinder the achievement of gender equality.

These examples show the areas in which women have been increasing their participation in Brazilian society, in equality of conditions and opportunities.

The provisions of the above mentioned legal documents continue to conform to the principle of equality in education while creating mechanisms and necessary conditions for women and girl children to enjoy equality in education and training.

The right to equal conditions and selection criteria in employing men and women is established in the Gender Equality Act.

Because the social conditions of the French model have been so neglected, the model is now a living contradiction of its core principle equality.

All advocates for women's rights and gender equality must work to eliminate the economic and social conditions that keep girls out of school.

Cultural rights are human rights that aim at assuring the enjoyment of culture and its components in conditions of equality, human dignity and non discrimination.

(6) National Council for Young Persons, the role of which is to establish working coordination to benefit adolescent girls in conditions of equality with males

Principle of equality of treatment in respect of remuneration and other conditions of work and terms of employment social security and right to receive urgent medical care.

The general aim of the project is arriving at a situation where conditions exist for gender equality as prerequisites for democracy and prosperity of a society.

According to the Gender Equality Act, the employer must not establish conditions for remuneration or other conditions which are less favourable regarding an employee of one sex compared to an employee of the other sex doing the same or equivalent work.

While globalization provides wider opportunities for gender equality and justice, it also creates conditions that can perpetuate gender inequality in the work force.

creation of conditions for the Gender Equality Law implementation, including building of government capacity and institutional mechanisms relating to the issued of gender and civil society in general

Equality of Access

Yet equality before the law was not the same as equality in rights or gender equality.

Equality of the sexes

The Gender Equality Act stipulates an obligation of employers actively to promote gender equality.

Recognition of the equality of all races and of the equality of all nations, large and small.

Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

Promotion of equality of opportunity

(v) Actively promoting gender equality with the aim of achieving full equality between men and women

The Gender Equality Act provides for the creation of a new institution the Gender Equality Commissioner.

Conference of Ministers of Gender Equality

Under the Gender Equality Act the employers have a duty to create working conditions which are suitable for both women and men and support the reconciling of work and family life, taking into account the needs of employees.

Stimulating Equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

Reaffirms the commitment to employment policies that promote full and productive employment and decent work for all under conditions of equity, equality, security and dignity, and also reaffirms that employment creation should be incorporated into macroeconomic policies

He himself headed a 10 person gender equality unit at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform which was responsible for implementing Ireland's international gender equality commitments.

The Gender Equality Council approves the general guidelines of gender equality policy, consults the Government on issues of strategy for the promotion of gender equality and presents to the Government its position on the conformity with the Gender Equality Act of national programmes submitted by the ministries.

Gender equality and empowerment of women

4.1 Media portrayal of gender equality

Conditions of service

The Department of Education and Science Gender Equality Unit focused on the education sector, while the Ministry of Finance Gender Equality Unit oversaw the implementation of equality policies in the employment of civil servants.

9. Reaffirms the commitment to employment policies that promote full and productive employment and decent work for all under conditions of equity, equality, security and dignity, and also reaffirms that employment creation should be incorporated into macroeconomic policies

Poland has maintained a high level of gender equality, an established disability rights movement and promotes peaceful equality.

Indeed, contemporary democracies are distinguished precisely by their ambition to combine respect for liberty and formal equality of rights with public policies that, as the Preamble of the 1946 French Constitution puts it, provide all citizens with adequate living conditions.

In addition to the Employment Equality Act and the Equal Status Act he had just mentioned, equality was promoted by an Equality Authority.

The legal equality that women enjoy does not necessarily translate into factual equality.

Based on the Gender Equality Act the Gender Equality Council will be established.

Equality or Estrangement

Happiness Is Equality

Education for Equality