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... Aware that a change in the traditional role of men as well as the role of women in society and in the family is needed to achieve full equality between men and women, ...


... (a) The same conditions for career and vocational guidance, for access to studies and for the achievement of diplomas in educational establishments of all categories in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-school, general, technical, professional and higher technical education, as well as in all types of vocational training; ...
... (c) The elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim and, in particular, by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of teaching methods; ...


... Nothing in the present Convention shall affect any provisions that are more conducive to the achievement of equality between men and women which may be contained: ...