6.1 set up educational programmes
designed to encourage boys and men to get involved in equality projects,
and propose specific activities to make them aware of gender equality
issues;
6.2 from the earliest years, promote boys’ and men’s involvement
in combating violence against women and girls;
6.3 educate men on gender equality issues and offer a framework
to encourage them to take an active part in tasks traditionally
assigned to women (childcare, management of social and educational matters)
and in this respect, pay special attention to programmes enabling
men to train other men on these issues;
6.4 take action against the enduring use of stereotypes confining
men and women to traditional roles and against the use of pornographic
representations that depict women as sexual objects, in the media and
advertising;
6.5 promote positive measures to improve women’s and men’s
participation in public and political life in line with
Resolution 1489 (2006) on mechanisms to ensure women’s participation in decision
making;
6.6 promote the position of women on the labour market and
their access to decision-making positions, and thus help to tackle
unequal pay;
6.7 accordingly, introduce special programmes to promote parenthood
and ways of reconciling work and private life among male employees
in the civil service and encourage companies in the private sector
to do the same, in line with
Recommendation
1769 (2006);
6.8 fully involve men in specific policies concerning their
responsibility for contraception and reproductive health and the
reorganisation of working time and family policies, while explicitly
addressing the issue of gender equality;
6.9 change legislation, if this has not already been done,
to introduce paid parental leave including a part that is non-transferable
to the mother, which encourages men to take parental leave and to
play an active part in the care of young children;
6.10 introduce gender budgeting, an important tool for analysing
the impact of public policies on citizens of both sexes and for
restructuring revenues and expenditure so as to reduce socio-economic inequalities
between men and women, in line with Assembly
Recommendation 1739 (2006) on gender budgeting.
