Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat.

Urges the Secretary-General to further examine existing work practices within the UN system, with a view to increasing flexibility so as to remove direct or indirect discrimination against staff members with family responsibilities, further considering such issues as job-sharing, flexible working hours, child-care arrangements, career-break schemes and access to training; further urges the Secretary-General, in accordance with the Charter of UN, to accord greater priority to the recruitment and promotion of women in posts subject to geographical distribution, particularly in senior policy-level and decision-making posts; strongly urges the Secretary-General to make further use of the opportunity offered by the UN reorganization process to promote more women into senior-level positions; urges the Secretary-General to increase the number of women employed by the Secretariat from developing countries; requests the Secretary-General to further develop comprehensive policy measures aimed at the prevention of sexual harrassment in the Secretariat.

Adopted without vote, 40th meeting

Adopted at the 40th plenary meeting, 21 July 1994.
In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1994, New York, 25 January and 3 and 4 February 1994; resumed organizational session for 1994, New York, 6 June 1994; substantive session of 1994, New York, 27 June-29 July 1994; second special session of 1994, New York, 16 September 1994; resumed substantive session of 1994, New York, 3 and 4 November 1994 - E/1994/94 - p. 20-21 - (ESCOR, 1994, Suppl. no. 1).