comprehensive regional development programmes had been adopted. The representative reported that the orientation of girls towards traditional Women represented 86 per cent of the employment was still noticeable. employees in education, 83 per cent in health services and 81 per cent in economic-commercial jobs, compared with 10.4 per cent of those attending schools for mechanical engineering and metallurgy. The educational authorities, vocational guidance institutions and employment agencies were working towards changing the professional orientation of girls in order to remove gender segregation in employment and ta prepare girls for jobs required for modern socio-economic and tocbnological development. 345. The representative said that the education system in Yugoslavia secondary, teacher training comprised: (a) regular education (elementary, schools and higher education)) (b) adult education, through evening classes at universities and other educational institutions; and (c) professional workers' training at work, organised in enterprises and specialised educational She said that the compulsory elementary school-leaving age institutions. of women's participation in short-term further was 17. The percentage education and in retraining courses was related to their n66d to develop further skills in order to re-enter the workforce. Their lower participation in vocational and advanced training was connected to their obligations to the family and concern for the care of children, factors that wet6 exacerbated in She said that gen6ra.l measures were being taken to times of economic crisis. improve the range of qualifications of wOrk6rS in the process of economic No separate measures or programmes had been developed for restructuring. women but discrimination was excluded from the general measures. 346, The representative said that sex education and education for family planning was included in the basic curricula of elementaryand The programmes varied between the federal units secondary-school education. and between cities. Furthermore, she said that family planning and contraception was dealt with by the provision of counselling within health and social welfare institutions. She elaborated on the 1989 Assembly resolution on the fundamentals of population and family planning that had determined the basic guidelines for policies in that field. The objhCtiv6S were: to base curricula in educational institutions on modern teaching principles and scientific achievements) to ensure closer cooperation between teachers and parents within the socio-political COmUnitihS : and, in the impl6mentatLon of those policies, to develop an interdisciplinary approach with regard to a more harmonious relationship between the sexes and to sex education. 341, Responding to a further question on the illiteracy rate and on cempaigns to tackle the problem, the representative said that the 10 per cent of the pOpUkitiO%I who W6r6 illiterate were either in the rural areas or among the elderly population. Although courses were held at night schools, workers' universities and in the adult education programme, they were ofCen not easily accessible t0 older women or t0 tho66 in lass d%VhlOped regions. 348. On article 11, the representative said that the use of social criteria applied by the Smploymhnt Office to applicants and the system of identifying employment priorities did not permit discrimination on the basis of gender. Data on the labour force included information on the sex of both smployed and unemployed workers in addition to other criteria, such as occupation, age and work experience. The representative said that there were no specific projects -ll-