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ensure that the committees on decorum and investigation that are established
in schools and mandated to accept complaints of sexual harassment do not in
effect hinder the investigation and prosecution of perpetrators of sexual
violence and harassment at schools by formal criminal justice bodies;
(e) Develop operational guidelines for schools and provide training for
teachers in order to deliver high-quality, age-appropriate education on sexual
and reproductive health and rights for all girls and boys, including those with
disabilities.
Employment
35. The Committee welcomes the removal of the prohibition on night work for
women and the adoption of the Domestic Workers Act, but remains concerned
about:
(a)
Women’s overrepresentation in the informal sector;
(b) Persistent occupational gender
concentrated in social and caregiving work;
segregation,
with
women
being
(c) The wide gender wage gap in the State party and the restrictive
interpretation of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value;
(d) Widespread sexual harassment in the workplace and the prevalence of
impunity.
36.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Intensify measures to increase the protection of human rights for
women working in the informal sector and efforts to facilitate the entry of
women workers into the formal sector, including through use of temporary
special measures for women belonging to minority groups;
(b) Eliminate horizontal and vertical gender segregation in the labour
market, including by adopting temporary special measures to promote access
for women to employment;
(c) Expedite the amendment of the Labour Code to expand the list of
prohibited acts of discrimination against women on account of sex and the
adoption of pending bills to expand the definition of sexual harassment to
include peer sexual harassment, and increase penalties for such crimes;
(d) Strengthen efforts to investigate and impose sanctions for sexual
harassment in the workplace, whether committed in the public or private
sector, in line with the Committee’s general recommendation No. 19 (1992) on
violence against women;
(e) Establish objective job evaluation schemes for the application of the
principle of equal pay for work of equal value in accordance with the
Convention and the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100), of ILO.
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