the number of women who had or not URAMA benefited from against women, he said that only isolated cases bad been partiaipated in its first aongress nor on whether teahniaal advisory services. As regards violence it did not constitute a crucial problem and that reported. 231. Referring to questions under article 5 relatsd to the distribution of tho translation of the Convention in the national language in girls’ schools only, the representative said the aim had been to iL?rease awareness of the Convention among girls. He said that the text would. in future, be distributed in boys’ schools also. lie said that there was an intention to increase the number of coeducational schools. As regards the attempt to overcome traditional taboou, he said that tbe most important task was to eradicate existing discrimination in the curricula of primary schools. He said that there were progrsmmes to teach the same skills to both girls and boys. Regarding the question as to whether any jobs were regarded as being associated exclusively with men or with women, he said that men tended to be assoaiated with jobs that implied heavy physical work, whereas women were The most important policy of the assouiatad more with cleaning work. Government regargi_qg traditf_onal attitudes was the adoption of coeduoation in grS_ary~ schools. 232. Additional queries referred to the statements made by the representative on article 5 that tbera were no taboo6 that would discourage men from assisting in the housework. Members suggested that a man might assist in the housework only on the rare occasions when a woman fell ill. The representative replied that it was difficult to reorganise the division of labour in the family, and, therefore, it was important to start changing attitudes at the primary-school level. Another query aonoernea his statement that violence against women did not constitute a problem. TO the question as to whether it was a case of inaidents not being reported or’of women simply accepting the occurrence of violence, he said that, traditionally, women did not file complaints in case of rape or other acts of violence. 233. Concerning article it was practised only in number of women engaged centres of re-education 6, he said that prostitution was forbidden by law. As secret , no statistioal data could be supplied on the in prostitution nor on the percentage of women in the and production, 234. Turning to article 7, he said that the only criterion determining women’s eligibility to join professional organisations and to participate in their administration or leadership was their personal skill, and not their civil status, No data could be supplied on the percentage of women in the judiciary. The only criterion that counted in ensuring that women participated in the design and establishment of development and planning programmes was their level of education. As regards plans to improve the political partiaipation of women, he said that progrsmmes existed to increase women’s awareness of their role in public life, and women were being called upon to submit their candidacy for public office. Most of those who ran were elected. 235. Regarding article I, members asked whether the Government undertook ~;ly specific measures to provide for the adequate representation of women on the various policy-making bodies and nhether temporary special measures pursuant to article 4 could accelerate the de facto equality of women. The