RECOMMENDATION
36.(c) Encourage women and girls to choose non-traditional fields of education and career paths, in particular science, technology, engineering and maths and information and communications technology
Recommendation No: 2021-36.(c)
Recommendation Year: 2021
Recommendation Text: 36.(c) Encourage women and girls to choose non-traditional fields of education and career paths, in particular science, technology, engineering and maths and information and communications technology
Convention/Treaty Body: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
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Related Human Rights Articles
CEDAW Article 10 - Article 10 States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: (a) The same conditions for career and vocational guidance, for access to studies and for the achievement of diplomas in educational establishments of all categories in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-school, general, technical, professional and higher technical education, as well as in all types of vocational training; (b) Access to the same curricula, the same examinations, teaching staff with qualifications of the same standard and school premises and equipment of the same quality; (c) The elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and 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 adaptation 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, particulary 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 organization 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.
Stakeholders
Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) | Ministry of Education (MoE)
Relevant Articles of the Constitution
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Related Recommendations of other Treaty Bodies
CEDAW - 21 - CEDAW
CEDAW - 31 - CEDAW
CEDAW - 41 - CEDAW
CAT-12 - CAT
133.246 - UPR -3rd cycle
133.192 - UPR -3rd cycle
133.197 - UPR -3rd cycle
133.207 - UPR -3rd cycle
133.141 - UPR -3rd cycle
Related SDGs
GOAL 02
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