11.3. eliminate conscious gender bias in recruitment, training and promotion processes, and learn to recognise and screen out unconscious bias;

11.4. ensure through legal measures, awareness-raising campaigns and media visibility that the workplace is seen as a safe space for everyone, and in particular women who are often the targets of multiple and persistent “micro-aggressions” and other forms of gender-based harassment;

11.5. recognise the value of types of employment where women are in a majority, first and foremost in care and medical fields, and reward these skills and competences at their true value;

11.6. promote women’s participation in traditionally male dominated sectors, such as STEM fields, as well as in emerging sectors like the digital and green economy, by implementing targeted training and mentoring programs, to improve gender balance in the labour market and foster a more inclusive digital and green future;

11.7. develop specific grant programs for women entrepreneurs starting businesses and start-ups, with accessible application requirements for diverse backgrounds, along with support and advisory services to guide them through the application process, and provide financial literacy training;

11.8. ensure that technology used in human resources management takes into account diversity and intersectionality, and that automated decision making does not generate discrimination;

11.9. adopt measures to improve gender balance in leadership roles across the economy, including on corporate boards, senior management, and public-sector decision-making positions.

12. With regard to care and family responsibilities, the Assembly calls on member States to:

12.1. enact legislation to support paid parental leave for both parents, flexible working arrangementsand caregiving leave for those caring for children, elderly or disabled family members;

12.2. provide affordable and accessible, high-quality childcare and elderly care services, reducing thecaregiving burden that often falls disproportionately on women;

12.3. promote the equal sharing of responsibilities through public awareness campaigns and policiessuch as paid paternal leave, in particular to encourage and incentivise men to share caregiving duties;

12.4. introduce tax breaks or subsidies for families that employ caregivers or provide in-home careservices;

12.5. create programmes that ensure all children have access to universal early education to allowparents, particularly women, to engage in the workforce;

12.6. ensure that leave for care responsibilities does not affect pension rights;

12.7. include unpaid work in national statistics by gathering quantitative and qualitative data,particularly time use surveys.

13. Concerning education, the Assembly calls on member States to:

13.1. ensure that from the earliest age, school curricula avoid the gender bias and stereotyping whichlead children to channel their energies into gendered and stereotyped roles and, in particular, lead togirls losing their confidence in their abilities in science and mathematics;

13.2. provide equal opportunities for girls and boys to experience a broad range of theoretical andpractical studies in different areas, and reinforce programmes such as job-information days or careerfairs in schools for both parents and students and early work experience through educationprogrammes and apprenticeships, to encourage girls’ interest in science-related subjects;

13.3. organise extra-curricular activities to enable girls to discover and exercise technological skillsand computing competencies, such as computer coding in non-competitive, game-based surroundings;

13.4. provide training and further training for teachers to enable them to recognise and address theirown conscious or unconscious gender bias.

14. Finally, the Assembly calls on all Council of Europe member States as well as observer States andStates whose parliaments enjoy observer or partner for democracy status with the Assembly to use theresearch and tools at their disposal to collect more disaggregated and intersectional data on gender-baseddiscrimination in the economy in order to better address it at all levels, and to take into account the evidenceshowing that if the full potential of women were realised, national incomes would rise considerably in the shortand medium term.

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