We can change national attitudes to women and national attitudes to HIV.

We need to change attitudes to women in Africa.

Attitudes towards women in the Health System

National plans of action devote consideration to the prevailing social attitudes that discriminate against women.

Advances must be made in attitudes, but also in technology, to free women from household chores.

Educational reform programmes have not been specifically designed to change traditional attitudes towards women and girls.

(c) That social attitudes towards women have limited the participation of women in economic activities outside the home.

Attitudes must be changed, and cultural patterns which discriminated against women must be eliminated.

Despite this, prevailing negative attitudes towards women and discriminatory customary laws and practices continue to contribute to the slow pace in advancing the status of women.

The report claimed that the disadvantages women faced resulted purely from societal beliefs and attitudes.

In addition to legal measures, it was important to undertake awareness raising measures in order to change traditional attitudes against women.

There is also a cross sectional lack of awareness and entrenched societal attitudes relating to women and women's rights.

The issue of changing societal attitudes towards women will be an integral component of this project.

But despite these improvements, inequality still persists, as well as attitudes which systematically discriminate against women.

This shift requires a change in attitudes and mindsets towards the status and capabilities of women.

Attitudes to parental roles

Preventive measures, including public information and education programmes to change attitudes concerning the roles and status of men and women.

The Committee notes with dissatisfaction that prevailing traditional and socio cultural attitudes towards women contribute to the perpetuation of negative images of women, which impedes their emancipation.

Prostitution, trafficking and other forms of violence against women are based in sociocultural perceptions and attitudes about the relationships between men and women

These included financial constraints, biased governance methods that tended to favour men over women gender stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes and practices.

Discriminatory and stereotypical attitudes, lack of education, security concerns and freedom of movement may also limit opportunities for women to participate.

181. The representative emphasized that, although much had been achieved, women in Panama still faced gender discrimination and negative cultural attitudes continued to reinforce the subordination of women.

282. The Committee is convinced that the existence of cultural attitudes that confine women to the roles of mothers and housewives presents a great obstacle to the advancement of women.

It has stated on many occasions that traditional attitudes by which women are regarded as subordinate to men contribute to violence against them.

Women with children were entitled to alimony even if divorce were granted because of the woman's fault, and the social attitudes to divorced women did not cause them any significant problem.

The programme has preventive objectives, such as public information campaigns, with a view to changing prevailing social attitudes towards violence against women.

Attitudes favourable to illicit drug use

The analysis of the attitudes of women shows that women do not see social risks in the expansion of prostitution and the increasing network of brothels.

Traditional attitudes and stereotypes regarding the role of women and men in society have given men control over land.

The attitudes of traditional authorities towards issues relating to the family and to the economic activity of women are influenced by the fact that women are virtually absent from positions of traditional leadership.

The State party should increase its efforts to change stereotypical attitudes detrimental to women's rights, and to promote the literacy and education of girls and women.

In response to allegations of discrimination against women in the leadership of the Israeli Defence Forces, more high ranking positions had been opened for women, and efforts had been made to change attitudes regarding the role of women in the military.

It is unclear what steps the Government is proposing to take to modify such attitudes, which present a serious obstacle to the advancement of women in Indonesia.

She also argued that the attitudes of women with regard to reporting cases of domestic violence had changed over time and that women victims of domestic violence were now less stigmatized than before.

NEPEM is aiming to work with community leaders to understand and analyse social attitudes with regard to violence against women through case studies of rape and domestic violence.

Alliances with the media and other opinion makers have proved successful in facilitating change in societal attitudes towards women and promoting positive images of equality between men and women.

While the political empowerment of women remained a challenge for the Government, an encouraging start had been made, indicating that attitudes towards women apos s leadership capabilities were changing.

Our attitudes must change.

Attitudes towards gender roles

These attitudes are changing.

into socially acceptable attitudes.

Single parents, unmarried couples, divorces1 and separations continue to become more commonplace as attitudes to marriage, cohabitation, and the role and status of women increasingly conform to international trends.

34. General Recommendations No. 3 and No. 21 also touch upon cultural and societal attitudes which may result in violence against women.

Since the adoption of the resolution, we are beginning to see a change in attitudes about the situation of women as well as concerted action at all levels to give women their rightful place in our societies.

Ms. Enkhtsetseg (Mongolia) said that throughout the world women still suffered from violence, infectious diseases, malnutrition, lack of access to education and health services and discriminatory attitudes.