A/C.3/33/WG.1/CRP.6
18 October 1978 

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH 

Thirty-third session 
Agenda item 75 

UNITED NATIONS DECADE FOR WOMEN: EQUALITY, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE 

Draft Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women 

Text adopted 

III. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS 

Article 10 

Each State Party shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women and to ensure to women equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: 

(a) The same conditions for career and vocational guidance, access to studies and achievement of a diploma in educational establishments of all categories in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-schooling, general, technical, professional and higher technical education, as well as in all types of vocational training; 

(b) Access to the same curricula, the same examinations, teaching staff with qualifications of the same standard and school premises and equipment of the same quality; 

(c) The elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging co-education and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim and in particular by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of teaching methods; 

(d) The same opportunities to benefit from scholarships and other study grants; 

(e) The same opportunity for access to programmes of continuing education, including adult and functional literacy programmes, particularly aimed at reducing, at the earliest possible time, any gap in education exising [sic] between men and women; 

(f) The reduction of the 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 actively in sports and physical education; 

(h) Access to specific educational information to help ensure the health and well-being of families, including information and advice on family planning. 

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