A/68/293 urgently. All States should remove any reservations to the Convention and ensure its full and effective implementation, and also ratify the Optional Protocol. They should also ratify ILO Conventions Nos. 156, 183 and 189 and ensure that national legislation is brought fully into conformity with these and their corresponding Recommendations. 76. In order to create an enabling legal framework, States must ensure comprehensive equality and non-discrimination legislation. This should include explicit prohibition of discrimination on the basis of maternity and family or carer responsibilities in all areas of public life, and the right to equal pay for equal work. These laws and regulations must cover part-time, 82 atypical and informal workers. Similarly, the legal framework must include reproductive rights, prohibit child marriage and remove any remaining family laws in place, including those relating to divorce, inheritance and division of marital property. 77. Labour rights should also be enshrined in law, including regulation of the length of the working day, minimum wage and rights to social security for all workers, including informal workers, domestic workers and community care workers. The right to maternity and parental leave should also be enshrined in legislation. All workers, regardless of gender, employment status, company size or the specific nature of their care relationship, should enjoy a legal right to request flexible working, with recourse to an independent appeal system. 78. The rights of carers should be explicitly recognized in legislation, with reference to their right to social security and their right to an adequate standard of living, including through income support where necessary. These rights can be elaborated through the development of national care standards and/or carer recognition legislation with enforceable obligations, based on human rights principles including equality and non-discrimination, selfdetermination, autonomy and participation. B. Measuring unpaid care work 79. Lack of timely, reliable and comparable sex-disaggregated data on women’s unpaid care work is a major obstacle to evidence-based gendersensitive policymaking, leading to negative outcomes for those who perform significant amounts of unpaid work. States should therefore conduct regular time-use surveys, with a view to recognizing, reducing and redistributing unpaid care work. 83 80. Time-use data collected must be sufficiently detailed to inform gendersensitive policies: 84 disaggregated by sex and age, measuring simultaneous activities, including and differentiating housework, care of persons and fuel and water collection. Data collection methods must be inclusive of socially __________________ 82 83 84 13-42271 See ILO Convention No. 175. In Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women general recommendation No. 17 and the Beijing Platform for Action States are also urged to develop methods for assessing the value of unremunerated work. See Valerie Esquivel, “Sixteen years after Beijing: what are the new policy agendas for time-use data collection?”, Feminist Economics, vol. 17, No. 4 (2011). 19/24