Forum: General Assembly 2

Issue: Reducing the Economic Gender gap in LEDCs

Main submitter: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Co submitters: China, Italy, Japan, Niger, Russia, Turkey

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

Alarmed by the great concern about the economic gender wage,

Having heard that African households were ruled by a patrilineal system where men were the
heads of the household and women managed the younger family members,

Keeping in mind that The effect of RBIs can be providing time-saving technology to aid women
working in handicraft to provide business support to women,

Deeply disturbed by the role of female chiefs decreased as male chiefs negotiated with British
colonial powers in the oversight of taxes and governance,

Aware of the fact that women lost their influence and power when patriarchy and colonialism
changed gender relations in the 20th century,

Deeply Concerned by poverty which makes them incredibly vulnerable and easy targets for
violence and easily manipulated,

Convinced with the fairly new method of trying to improve women’s standing in society, and of
improving women’s economic standing,

Observing that many NGOs and Governments try to approach this by trying to create more
opportunities for women and girls to become educated within LEDCs,

1. Calls upon  gender mainstreaming to promote gender equality and the empowerment of
women in population and development activities by:
a. UNFPA that has adopted the mainstreaming of gender concerns into all population and
development activities as the primary means of achieving the commitments on:
          i)  gender equality,
          ii) equity and
          iii)  empowerment of women;
           b )  Encouraging the hosting of awareness campaigns to educate women about their rights
and policies and to make them realize that they deserve and should demand the same;
c)Pulling attention to the fact that gender attributes are socially constructed means that they are
also amenable to change in ways that can make a society more just and equitable;

2) Deplores the Gender Strategy focuses on four pillars:

a.  improving human endowments, including health, education, and social protection;
b. removing constraints on more and better jobs;
 c.  enhancing women’s agency and engaging men and boys. Gender equality is also central
to the World Bank Group’s goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared
prosperity in a sustainable manner  

 3) Encouraging  women to be taught the importance of earning along with their male partner
within schools itself and  providing special facilities to the family, by:

a. reducing the importance of the female partner to financially support the family;
b. emphasizing the importance of making strict law against the harassment of women in
workplaces;
c. calling for  the same rights (suffrage, right to work in the same workplaces) as men;

4) Draws the attention to Promoting Women Entrepreneurship by:

a. Providing funding and licenses for start up businesses such as but not limited to:

i) Small scale industries

ii) Handicrafts such as Tailoring, Weaving, Candle making etc.

b.  Allowing women entrepreneurs into special training and skill development programs
which could improve women`s market access and encourage their business to grow and
be more stable
c.    Creating policies that reduce barriers which prevent women from starting and
developing their own businesses which would result in:

              i) encouraging more women to become entrepreneurs and 

             ii) help narrow multiple gender gaps such as female startup rates, productivity,  profitability
of businesses and economic gender gap

5) Strongly suggests the introduction of education reforms like:

a. Providing free education to all people until high school with the help of UN aid
b. Introducing daycare services at schools, to allow mothers to receive  education
c. Having a midday meal scheme:
    i.  Providing one free healthy meal to students a day to encourage student
retention;
  ii. This would be done with the local NGOs and UNICEF, to ensure safety and
hygiene;
d. Introducing government scholarships for government colleges for academic excellence,
pregnant women and mothers, and mature students as well;
e.  Introducing craft schools or trade schools where:
   i. people who have lost their jobs or people who haven’t been able to get a
proper education or even complete their school education can enrol to learn new
crafts; 
 ii. These schools will teach courses on not only handicrafts but also coding and
programming so that whoever graduates from these schools, will be able to make
a living for themselves
iii. These courses will be subsidized by the government
 
6) Encourages  Governments of LEDC’S to implement the following measures for employment

a. Providing subsidized insurance for people,families and single parents, working in

government jobs
b. demanding salary transparency;
c. Provide other job incentives such as:

i) Daycare services for working mothers

ii) Maternal and paternal paid leave

iii) Educating workers to create safe working spaces to ensure no misconduct

iv)establishment of free part-time nurseries thereby providing relief to mothers

from the motherhood penalty resulting in the return of mothers to work after
maternity leave and not resigning the job;

7) Recommends the  countries’ government to have the following health and safety measures:

    a . Strengthen social insurance by more public subsidies for care of children, people who are
sick and disabled and the elderly reduced tuition and fees at public universities and Medicare for
all.
b. Providing proper sex education to all citizens 
c. Providing safe havens for women and children who have been sexually assaulted and
providing them necessary physical and psychological help
d. Subsidizing women’s sanitary products and also providing population control products at
subsidised rates.
e.Enabling women and men to make decisions that impact more positively on their own sexual
and reproductive health as well as that of their spouses and families rather than due to family and
societal pressures;
8) Decides to remain actively seized on the matter.