to change the gender-segregated structure of the labour market or to improve the salary levels of female-dominated occupations other than the general In answer to a follow-up question, she said .-economic restructuring projacts. ~~that new government-funded programmes were being introduced for unemployed women workers to help them reintegrate into the labour market, change to She said that the reduction in tbe part-time work or take early retirement. employment opportunities in traditionally female-oriented occupations had -changed the preference patterns of young girls and their parents. 349. The representative said that statistics collected in March 1990 had shown female workers aacounted for 40 per cent of the 6.5 million employees in the public sector and 53.6 per cent of the 1.26 million unemployed. The ,-long-term trend was that the share of women in overall employment in the )I public sector had increased , while their share in the unemployed workforce had decreased. She said that women represented 51 per cent of the active but no accurate information was population engaged in private farming, available on the proportion of women among the 600,000 employed in the private ~~ -~--non-agriculture sector, In response to a request for the definition of the according to the Federal Law ~~ ~~ -term **essier work”, the--representative said that, 1 -~~;;;on Basic Labour Rights, the term referred to jobs that were not detrimental to ~ :. -or did not involve a high risk of affeating a woman’s health and life, taking -:-into account the need to protect her biological reproduction function. She said that the term “reproduction costs of households” referred to the minimum basics of life of a four-member Yugoslav household for the satisfactory p-attainment of food, alothing, and transport, and forhousing , education She informed members that the sharp rise -meeting cultural and health needs. --in prices and inflationary trends of the past two years had raised the ~~ --:--household-reproduotion costs and, consequently, the material and moral ~burdens of women, thushighlighting their increased family responsibilities. _- -==-,that =350. With reaard to conditions of maternity leave, the representative said .:&that female iorkers, irrespective of their-occupation, were entitled to a maternity leave of at least 210 days without interruption as stipulated in the Under that Law, aither parent had the CFederal Law -on Basic tabour Rights. gright, upon request, to work shorter hours or to take leave of absence, --reaffirming the constitutional tenet that both parents had the equal right and -responsibility to take aare of the rearing and education of their children, in &ine witb the conventions of IL0 that had been ratified by Yugoslavia. If a ++ahild needed care -because of -the -condition of its health, the mot&W was -entitled to work part-time until the child was three years old. There was flexibility in the legislation of the republics and provinces in the case of a ..:seriously handicapped child. Adoptive parents had the same parental rights as ,natural parents. In all instances, part-time workers had similar labour -conditions was those of full-time workers. Republican and provincial ~health-care laws had introduced the important right of a female worker to a -full monthly personal income during maternity leave. The representative stated that the Federal Law on Ecsic Labour Rights identified the conditions for mothers to work at night, 361. The representative said that the statistics available did not reflect percentage of their income that women spent on facilities to care for their :cbildren. Tbe expenses for those purposes were borne partly by parents, according to economic criteria, and partly by funds for health care, edudation, child care and social welfaro. She said that ffIedic81 certificates -12- the