CEDAW/C/CHE/CO/4-5 ensure that female and male candidates and elected representatives recei ve equal visibility in the media, especially during an election period; (c) To review the decision by the Federal Court and adopt proactive measures, including temporary special measures in accordance with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25 (2004), to address the structural obstacles to the achievement of substantive equality of women and men in political and public life. Human rights defenders 32. The Committee is concerned that women human rights defenders abroad are not sufficiently supported, owing to the lack of awareness by diplomatic staff of the Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders issued by the State party in 2013. 33. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure the full implementation of the Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and ensure that foreign policy actors are fully aware of the Guidelines and are adequately trained to address situations involving women human rights defenders. Education 34. The Committee welcomes the measures taken by the State party to address discriminatory stereotypes in education, in particular at the tertiary level, but remains concerned that: (a) Gender-stereotyped educational materials in schools and universities have an impact on traditional career choices made by women and girls and, while gender-sensitive teaching materials have been developed in a number of cantons, this practice has not been uniformly applied throughout the S tate party; (b) Women continue to be drawn to traditionally female -dominated fields of study and career paths and are underrepresented in vocational training and in certain fields of higher education, such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as evidenced in the annex to the State party’s report, which demonstrates that there has been little progress in this regard between 1990 and 2010 (less than 10 per cent); (c) Women continue to be underrepresented in decision-making and senior management positions at all levels of the education system. Similarly, the underrepresentation of professors and rectors at the senior level leaves young girls without role models in this area. 35. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Encourage further diversification of the educational choices of girls and boys, take steps to revise educational materials at the cantonal level and ensure that gender-sensitive teaching materials are available across all cantons and communities, and include a module on gender stereotypes in education within national teacher training programmes; 12/19 16-20858