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SECTION 1 2 3 TIME TO ACT • Implement laws that make it mandatory for governments to make national policies and regulations and bilateral and multilateral agreements available for public scrutiny before they are agreed; • Implement mechanisms for citizen representation and oversight in planning, budget processes and rule making, and ensure equal access for civil society – including trade unions and women’s rights groups – to politicians and policy makers; • Require the public disclosure of all lobbying activities and resources spent to influence elections and policy making; • Guarantee the right to information, freedom of expression and access to government data for all; • Guarantee free press and support the reversal of all laws that limit reporting by the press or target journalists for prosecution. Corporations should agree to: • End the practice of using their lobbying influence and political power to promote policies that exacerbate inequality and instead promote good governance and push other groups to do the same; • Make transparent all lobbying activities and resources spent to influence elections and policy making; • Support conditions that allow civil society to operate freely and independently, and encourage citizens to actively engage in the political process. 2) PROMOTE WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS Economic policy is not only creating extreme inequality, but also entrenching discrimination against women and holding back their economic empowerment. Economic policies must tackle both economic and gender inequalities. Governments and international institutions should agree to: • Implement economic policies and legislation to close the economic inequality gap for women, including measures that promote equal pay, decent work, access to credit, equal inheritance and land rights, and recognize, reduce and redistribute the burden of unpaid care; • Systematically analyze proposed economic policies for their impact on girls and women; improve data in national and accounting systems – including below the household level – to monitor and assess such impact (for example on the distribution of unpaid care work); • Prioritize gender-budgeting to assess the impact of spending decisions on women and girls, and allocate it in ways that promote gender equality; 114
SECTION 1 2 3 TIME TO ACT • Implement policies to promote women’s political participation, end violence against women and address the negative social attitudes of gender discrimination; • Include women’s rights groups in policy making spaces. Corporations should agree to: • End the gender pay gap and push other corporations to do the same; • Ensure access for decent and safe employment opportunities for women, non-discrimination in the workplace, and women’s right to organize; • Recognize the contribution of unpaid care work, and help reduce the burden of unpaid care work disproportionately borne by women, by providing child and elderly care and paid family and medical leave, flexible working hours, and paid parental leave; • Support women’s leadership, for example by sourcing from women-led producer organizations, supporting women to move into higher roles and ensuring women occupy managerial positions; • Analyze and report on their performance on gender equality, for example, through the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines and the UN Women Empowerment Principles. 3) PAY WORKERS A LIVING WAGE AND CLOSE THE GAP WITH SKYROCKETING EXECUTIVE REWARD Hard-working men and women deserve to earn a living wage. Corporations are earning record profits worldwide and levels of executive reward have soared. Yet many of the people who make their products, grow their food, work in their mines or provide their services earn poverty wages and toil in terrible working conditions. We must see global standards, national legislation and urgent corporate action to provide workers with more power. Governments and international institutions should agree to: • Move minimum wage levels towards a living wage for all workers; • Include measures to narrow the gap between minimum wages and living wages in all new national and international agreements; • Tie public procurement contracts to companies with a ratio of highest to median pay of less than 20:1, and meet this standard themselves; • Increase participation of workers’ representatives in decision making in national and multinational companies, with equal representation for women and men; 115
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