for job applicants did not contain information about pregnancy and, if discrimination against a pregnant woman was proved, she could resort to the courts of associated labour. The representative said that some federal units had tried to introduce part-time job-sharing schemes to integrate young persons into the work process but they had not been suocessful. No accurate statistical data were available on the number of women working in part-time She said the term "non-economia aativities" referred to the employment. overall activities outside the economy itself, such as social services, public administration ana other activities not included in the notion of economy. The term “social sector” referred to sectors with socially owned means of production, thereby including both the economy and the non-economic activities. 352. The representative said that t@ere was no disaggregated statistical information available on earned income, as men ana women were equal unr;er the Constitution and pay was equal for equal work. She said, however, that a higher percentage of employed women worked in the labour-intensive sectors with low income levels. She added that data showed that the total number of working women in the social services, commerce and the textile industry, which were traditionally low-paid oacupations, had increased by about 56,000 since 1967 compared with a rise of 5,000 in finanaial and other services with +imqvg-g3ygrvage incomelsvslssl 353. In response to a question on the the'representative said that the child'6 the mother had died, -or ebandoned the maternity leave herself. She defined characteristics" of women as specific reproductive function. rights of a father to parental leave, father could take paternity leave if child or was prevented from taking the the term 'psycho-physical characteristics related to their 354. On article 12, the representative informed the members that, in 1989, the Yugoslavian Assembly had adopted a resolution on the fundamentals of ~~ population and family planning policies. She aaia that the Government considered family planning a fundamental human right, which should be based on a mature awareness of the need for a free, socially conscious and responsible She said that the programme of measures of social policies aimed parenthood. at family planning was opposed in aome areas by separatist movements and by some religious groups} the training programmes of health and educational institutions and of the United Nations system had also met with organised opposition in the most affected region of Kosovo and Metohija. The representative said that measures were being implemented in the less aevelopea areas, particularly the rural and remote ones, to provide health education and information on modern methods of family planning. Similarly, educational, health and social serviaea were conaerned with removing the factor6 that slowed women's emancipation and integration into all nreas of life. The representative reported that, despite special campaign6 in the media and through the education and health aystema , the attitude6 towards family planning had not changed substantially. The lack of adequate information or the non-availability of contraceptives had led, she said, to the use of induced abortions as a means of family planning, Regional variations were observed in the proportion of abortions to live births and although the majority of abortion6 were first-time pregnancies, many women had had three or more abortions, A recent study conducted by the Social Research Inatitu,,, at Belgrade had determined that the main reason why women opted for an abortion was that they did not want any more children. The representative saia that -73-