Calls upon Member States to give priority to policies and programmes relating to the subtheme "Employment, Health and Education" for the empowerment of women, to meet their own needs through self-reliance and the mobilization of indigenous resources; requests the Commission on the Status of Women during its session in 1990 to consider the role of women in and their contribution to development; also requests the Commission to consider at its session in 1990 the question of holding in 1995 a world conference on women; urges that particular attention be given by the UN and Governments to the situation of disabled women; endorses the convening in 1991 of a high-level interregional consultation on women in public life; requests the Secretary-General to continue updating the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development and to submit a preliminary version to the Economic and Social Council, through the Commission, in 1993 and a final version in 1994; requests Governments, when presenting candidatures for vacancies in the Secretariat, to give priority to women's candidatures and requests the Secretary-General in reviewing these candidatures to give special consideration to candidates from underrepresented and unrepresented countries; calls upon the Secretary-General and the executive heads of the specialized agencies and other UN bodies to establish 5-year targets at each level for the percentage of women in Professional and decision-making positions taking into account the principle of equitable geographical distribution; requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide for weekly radio programmes on women.

Adopted without vote, 78th meeting

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Adopted at the 78th plenary meeting, 8 Dec. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 198-200. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).