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4. Establish a systematic micro-credit scheme to provide
opportunities for women entrepreneurs
5. Establish specific policies and programs to increase women’s
ownership of assets, their investment and savings rate.
6. Provide incentives to employers to provide childcare facilities either
at work or near the workplace.
7. Enabling the domestic caregiving sector to grow in order to
provide quality care for senior citizens, postnatal mothers, and to
address other needs.
8. Maternity leave will be fixed at 90 days.
Commitment 2: Ensuring women's health and social security
1. Create awareness and special training programmes to address
women’s mental health problems such as depression
2. Introduce women's health education programmes such as
awareness of healthy lifestyle and other relevant activities.
3. Improve reproductive health awareness programmes among
women of all ages so that they can protect themselves and their
families from risks.
4. Implement an awareness campaign for cervical and breast cancer
prevention, as well as ensuring women attend mammogram and
pap smear screening in government hospitals.
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