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ARTICLE 5

Slates Parties shall take all appropriate measures:

a) To modify the social and cultural patterns of

conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women;

b) To ensure that family education includes a

proper understanding of maternity as a social function and the recognition of the common responsibility of men and women in the upbringing arid development of their children, it being understood that the interest of the children is the primordial consideration in all cases.

ARTICLE 6

States Parties shall take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to suppress all forms of traffic in women and exploitation of prostitution of women.

Part II

ARTICLE 7

States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the political and public life of the country and, in particular, shall ensure to women, on equal terms with men, the right:

a) To vote in all elections and public referenda

and to be eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies;

b) To participate in the formulation of govern-

ment policy and the implementation thereof and to hold public office and perform all public functions at ali levels of government

c) To participate in neo-governmentai organiza-

tions and associations concerned with the public and political life of the country.

ARTICLE 8

States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure to women, on equal terms with men and without any discrimination, the opportunity to represent their Governments at the international level and to participate in the work of international organizations.

ARTICLE 9

1 — States Parties shall great women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality. They shall ensure, in particular, that neither marriage to an alien nor change of nationality by the husband during marriage shall automatically change the nationality of the wife, render her stateless or force upon her the nationality of the husband.

2 — States Parties shall grant women equal rights with men with respect to the nationality of their children.

Part III

ARTICLE 10

States Parties shall take ail appropria'e measures to eliminate discrimina'ion against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and, in par'icular, to ensure, on a basis of equali'y of men and women:

a) The same conditions for career and vocational

guidance, for access to studies and for the achievement of diplomas in educational establishments of all categories, in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-school, general, technical, professional and higher technical education, as well as in all types of vocational training;

b) Access to the same curricula, the same exami-

nations, teaching staff with qualifications of the same standard and school premises and equipment of the same quality;

c) The eiimination of any stereotyped concept of

the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim, in particular by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of teaching methods;

d) The same opportunities to benefit from schol-

arships and other study grants;

e) The same opportunities for access to pro-

grammes of continuing education, including adult and functional literacy programmes, particularly those aimed at reducing, at the earliest possible time, any gap in education existing between men and women;

f) The reduction of female student drop-out rates

and the organization of programmes for girls and women who have left school prematurely;

g) The same opportunities to participate ac'ively

in sports and physical education;

h) Access to specific educational information to

help to ensure the health and well-being of families, including information and advice on family planning.

ARTICLE II

I — States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the field of employment in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, the same rights, in particular

a) The right to work as an inalienable right of

all human beings;

b) The right to the same employment opportu-

nities, including the application of the same criteria for selection in matters of employment;

c) The right to free choice of profession and

employment, the right to promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service and the right to receive vocational