CEDAW/C/GC/37 63. Social and legal inequalities further restrict the ability of women to mo ve to safer, less disaster-prone areas and may limit women’s rights to access to financial services, credit, social security benefits and secure tenure of land and other productive resources. 24 64. States parties should: (a) Invest in gender-responsive social protection systems and social services that reduce economic inequalities between women and men and enable women to mitigate disaster risk and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Eligibility criteria for social protection schemes should be closely monitored to ensure that they are accessible to all groups of women, including women heads of household, unmarried women, internally displaced, migrant and refugee women and women with disabilities; (b) Ensure the resilience to disasters of workplaces and critical infrastructure, including nuclear reactors and plants, through regular inspections and the adoption of building safety codes and other systems to guarantee that such infrastructure, in particular that which is necessary for income-generating and domestic activities, is rendered operational as expeditiously as possible following disasters; (c) Guarantee women’s equal right to decent and sustainable employment opportunities, as provided for in article 11 of the Convention, and apply that right in the context of disaster prevention, management and recovery and in connection with climate change adaptation in both urban and rural areas; (d) Facilitate equal access for women to markets, financial services, credit and insurance schemes and regulate the informal economy to ensure that women are able to claim pensions and other employment-related social security entitlements; (e) Acknowledge and address the unequal burden of the unpaid and care work performed by women, including within disaster and climate policies. Policies and programmes should be developed to assess, reduce and redistribute the gendered burden of care tasks, such as awareness-raising programmes on the equal sharing of domestic work and unpaid care work, the introduction of time saving measures and the inclusion of appropriate technology, services and infrastructure; (f) Protect and promote women’s right to access to training in nontraditional areas of work, including within the green economy, and sustainable livelihoods, which would enable them to design, participate in, manage and monitor disaster and climate change prevention, preparedness, mitigation and adaptation initiatives and better equip them to benefit from such interventions. D. Right to health 65. Under article 12 of the Convention, States parties are to guarantee substantive equality between women and men in the provision of health-care services, including sexual and reproductive health services and mental and psychological health services. The measures that States parties must take, under article 12, in order to respect, protect and fulfil the right to health for all women are detailed in the Committee ’s general recommendation No. 24 (1999) on women and health. Health services and __________________ 24 18-03824 See general recommendation No. 29 (2013) on the economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their dissolution and general recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women. 19/24

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