Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas A/RES/68/139 (t) Promoting programmes and services to enable rural women and men to reconcile their work and family responsibilities and to encourage men to share, equally with women, household, childcare and other care responsibilities; (u) Developing strategies to decrease women’s vulnerability to environmental factors while promoting rural women’s role in protecting the environment; (v) Considering the adoption, where appropriate, of national legislation to protect the knowledge, innovations and practices of women in indigenous and local communities relating to traditional medicines, biodiversity and indigenous technologies; (w) Addressing the lack of timely, reliable data disaggregated by sex and age, including by intensifying efforts to include women’s unpaid work in official statistics, and developing a systematic and comparative research base on rural women that will inform policy and programme decisions; (x) Strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices to collect, analyse and disseminate comparable data disaggregated by sex and age, including on time use, and gender statistics in rural areas to serve as a basis f or genderresponsive policy design and strategy development in rural areas; (y) Designing, revising and implementing laws to ensure that rural women are accorded full and equal rights to own and lease land and other property, including through the equal right to inheritance, and undertaking administrative reforms and all necessary measures to give women the same right as men to credit, capital, appropriate technologies and access to markets and information, and to ensure their equal access to justice and legal support; (z) Supporting a gender-sensitive education system that considers the specific needs of rural women in order to eliminate gender stereotypes and discriminatory tendencies affecting them, including through community -based dialogue involving women and men and girls and boys; (aa) Promoting education, training and relevant information programmes for rural and farming women through the use of affordable and appropriate technologies and the mass media, and taking concrete measures to improve rura l women’s skills, productivity and employment opportunities through technical, agricultural and vocational education and training; 3. Encourages Member States, United Nations entities and all other relevant stakeholders to promote access to social protection for female-headed rural households; 4. Requests the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular those dealing with issues of development, to address and support the empowerment of rural women and their specific needs in their programmes and strategies; 5. Stresses the need to identify the best practices for ensuring that rural women have access to and full participation in the area of information and communications technology, to address the priorities and needs of ru ral women and girls as active users of information and to ensure their participation in developing and implementing global, regional and national information and communications technology strategies, taking appropriate educational measures to eliminate gen der stereotypes regarding women in the field of technology; 5/6