7.1 ratify the 1979 United
Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women and the amendment and protocol thereto, if they have not already
done so;
7.2 guarantee access to education for all children, including
girls, who are more frequently outside the school system than boys,
if necessary by taking over the costs related to their schooling;
7.3 promote mixed-sex classes in schools, including in non-state
schools, with a view to providing a carefully thought-out education
based on the promotion of learning motivation and self-regulation,
and focusing on the individual pupil in order to foster the development
of his or her abilities;
7.4 promote education in human rights taking account of the
principle of gender equality;
7.5 introduce education in sexual and reproductive health
for both girls and boys with the aim, in particular, of protecting
them from sexually transmitted diseases and teaching them respect
for their partners;
7.6 take measures to speed up de jure and de facto equality
in education while actively defending equal rights and equal opportunities
for girls and boys, women and men, and equal treatment with due regard
to their differences, whether they are pupils, students or teachers;
7.7 ensure a gender balance among schools’ teaching, administrative
and managerial staff, as well as in pupil and student delegations
to the bodies that run schools and universities;
7.8 give priority to training the staff of educational institutions
and childcare facilities in, and raising their awareness of, the
promotion of equality between girls and boys and between women and
men:
7.8.1 by training trainers in
the promotion of equality between girls and boys and in non-violence;
7.8.2 by establishing gender equality training as a subject
in its own right, with the same value as other pedagogical components
of the training curriculum for new teachers;
7.8.3 by organising specialised training programmes throughout
the teacher-training curriculum and during working life;
7.8.4 by raising awareness among guidance and vocational education
staff of occupational gender stereotypes and equality issues;
7.8.5 by regularly evaluating teachers’ behaviour, which should
not be sexist, during their professional activities;
7.8.6 by making teachers aware of the particular difficulties
which can be experienced by young immigrant girls;
7.9 include, in curricula for boys and girls, educational
and training activities designed to raise their awareness of gender
equality and prepare them for the exercise of democratic citizenship;
7.10 include in curricula a component relating to the sharing
of domestic and child-raising responsibilities;
7.11 revise teaching material and methods in such a way as
to promote non-discriminatory language and non-sexist education;
7.12 make parents more aware of the personal worth of their
children, in particular their daughters, within the context of positive
parenting;
7.13 support parents in bringing up their children, in particular
by setting up “parenting schools”, designed to aid and assist parents,
including promoting equality between women and men, and girls and boys
within families;
7.14 take steps to ensure that public and private funders of
school and study grants respect the principle of gender balance
when awarding grants;
7.15 promote sports activities for girls and boys, funding
the different sports facilities in an equitable fashion and educating
sports teachers in equality between girls and boys;
7.16 raise awareness among media professionals of gender equality
and ensure fair and equitable representation of girls and women
in the media;
7.17 rigorously fight all forms of gender-based violence against
girls, in particular paedophilia, genital mutilation, forced and
child marriages and feminicide, as well as gender-based selective
abortions, in Europe and the whole world.
