A/RES/70/219 Women in development their participation in, all levels of education, including technical, vocational and tertiary education and training; 38. Encourages Member States to adopt and implement, as appropriate, legislation and policies protecting women’s labour and human rights in the workplace, including with respect to minimum wages, social protection and equal pay for equal work or for work of equal value, promoting collective bargaining and providing for recruitment, retention and promotion policies targeting women; 39. Reaffirms the commitment to women’s equal rights and opportunities in political and economic decision-making and resource allocation and to the removal of any barriers that prevent women from being full participants in the economy, and the resolve to undertake legislative and administrative reforms to give women equal rights with men to economic resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and appropriate new technology, encourages the private sector to contribute to advancing gender equality by striving to ensure women’s full and productive employment and decent work, equal pay for equal work or for work of equal value, and equal opportunities, as well as protecting them against discrimination and abuse in the workplace, including by supporting the women’s empowerment principles established by UN-Women and the United Nations Global Compact, and encourages increased investment in female-owned companies or businesses; 40. Urges Governments to take measures to facilitate women’s access to land and property rights by providing training designed to make the judicial, legislative and administrative system gender-responsive, to provide legal aid for women seeking to claim their rights, to support the efforts of women’s groups and networks and to carry out awareness campaigns in order to draw attention to the need for women’s equal rights to land and property; 41. Recognizes the need to build dynamic, sustainable, innovative and people-centred economies, promoting youth employment and women’s economic empowerment in particular and decent work for all, and to ensure that labour -market regulations and social provisions create a more level playing field for women, including by enacting and enforcing minimum wage legislation, eliminating discriminatory wage practices and promoting measures such as public works programmes, in order to enable women to cope with recurrent crises and long-term unemployment; 42. Also recognizes the need to empower women, particularly poor women and girls, economically and politically, and in this regard encourages Governments, with the support of their development partners, to invest in appropriate infrastructure and other projects, including the provision of water and sanitation to rural areas and urban slums, in order to increase health and well -being, relieve the workloads of women and girls and release their time and energy for other productive activities, including entrepreneurship; 43. Expresses deep concern that the lack of adequate sanitation facilities disproportionately affects women and girls, including their labour force and school participation rates, and increases their vulnerability to vi olence, and in this regard calls for the strengthening of efforts to achieve sanitation for all and to end open defecation, paying special attention to women and girls; 44. Recognizes the central role of agriculture in development, and stresses the importance of reviewing agricultural policies and strategies to ensure that women’s critical role in food security and nutrition is recognized and addressed as 12/15