on equality of rights between men and women, invites the governments of member states:
1.1 to include the principle of equality of rights in their respective constitutions and draw up antidiscriminatory legislation;
1.2 to become parties to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the year 2000, if they have not already done so, and examine the possibility of withdrawing reservations in respect of the convention by amending their relevant laws;
1.3 to set up, if they have not already done so, machinery to promote and supervise respect for the principle of equality of rights between women and men and equip the machinery with the powers, financial resources and staff it needs to attain its objectives, particularly that of facilitating participation by women in political life on an equal footing with men;
1.4 to ensure an acceptable representation of women when appointing their Permanent Representatives to the Council of Europe;
1.5 to support suitable candidatures from women to higher posts;
1.6 to ensure that efforts are made to foster equality in schools, for example by removing sexual stereotypes from textbooks and to introduce initiation in human rights into school curricula, including the male/female equality aspect, and in "parity democracy", stressing the need for balanced participation by women and men in political life;
1.7 to encourage the mass media to promote equality;
1.8 to take action to further equality between women and men in working life:
a by ensuring that the European social standards and in particular the principle of equal pay for work of equal value, as enshrined in the European Social Charter and its additional Protocol, are equally recognised and effectively applied in respect of women and men on the labour market;
b by stressing the need to organise occupational life, particularly working hours, in such a way that men and women are able to look after their children, share household tasks and dovetail these tasks with their occupational activities;
c by introducing the principle of parental leave into their legislation, as well as the concept of paid leave for one of the parents for the purpose of looking after their children;
d by promoting satisfactory day-care and other arrangements so as to enable both parents to go out to work;
e by making any form of sexual assault at workplaces an offence;
1.9 to provide financial support for non-governmental organisations active in the field of equality between women and men and give their officials the opportunity to attend conferences and seminars on equality.
