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encourage companies to create part-time opportunities in high-level positions
and to harmonize discriminatory provisions in labour law and social law, and
ensure that invalidity insurance is available for part-time workers;
(c) Create more opportunities for women to gain access to full-time
employment, including by adopting a rights-based national childcare
framework in order to provide sufficient and adequate childcare facilities, and
establish a legal framework to ensure that paid paternity leave is available
without having an impact on the right of mothers to take maternity leave;
(d) Ensure that the situation of women who have been involved in
unpaid care work is taken into consideration without discrimination when
drafting the pension scheme reform for 2020;
(e) Ensure that victims of discriminatory harassment in the workplace
have access to effective mechanisms and remedies and encourage employers to
conduct regular reviews of company culture to prevent such harassment;
(f) Take into account the needs of disadvantaged groups of women,
especially migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women, as well as women with
disabilities, and introduce targeted measures to create further employment
opportunities for these women.
Health
38. The Committee welcomes the measures adopted by the State party to address
disparities in terms of access to health services between cantons and, in particular,
between Swiss nationals and migrants. Nevertheless, the Committee remains
concerned about:
(a) The language barriers and lack of awareness often preventing migrant
women from accessing health-care facilities, including sexual and reproductive
health services;
(b) Disparities in the teaching of age-appropriate sexual education across
cantons and the resulting risk of teenage pregnancy;
(c) Disparities in the availability of cantonal support services and the l ack of
inclusion of lesbian, bisexual and intersex persons in health surveys and registers;
(d) The persistence of gender reassignment treatment targeting transgender
persons, including involuntary medical treatment, such as hormonal or surgical
sterilization, and the costs associated with such treatment;
(e) The unavailability of disaggregated information and data on cases of
HIV/AIDS in the State party, and the lack of measures to limit the risk of HIV and
sexually transmitted infections for women in prostitution.
39. In line with its general recommendation No. 24 (1999) on women and
health, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Ensure that medical professionals are aware of the cultural and
linguistic barriers that migrant women face when accessing health care, and
ensure the availability of female medical staff if requested; and take steps to
introduce awareness-raising campaigns, in relevant languages, among migrant
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