27 July 1989

36th plenary meeting

Effective mobilization and integration of women in development

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling its resolution 1988/49 of 26 July 1988,

Noting the section of the World Economic Survey, 1989 on the socio-economic attainment of women,

Noting also that the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development will be submitted to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session,

1. Welcomes the section on the socio-economic attainment of women contained in the World Economic Survey, 1989;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to maintain that section in the World Economic Survey and to incorporate, inter alia, statistical indicators on income distribution, health, nutrition, fertility and education;

3. Also requests the Secretary-General, in the next edition of the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development, to focus on socio-economic aspects, inter alia, of emerging trends with respect to women and education, health, population, income distribution, employment and environment issues, as well as the participation of women in decision-making, and to submit a draft text to the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1994 for comment;

4. Further requests the Secretary-General to invite the regional commissions, within their terms of reference, to provide relevant input for the section of the World Economic Survey on the socio-economic attainment of women and for the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development;

5. Recommends that the Statistical Office of the United Nations Secretariat play a central role in the intensified co-ordination of statistical data within the United Nations system on women in development and that United Nations sectoral studies be planned and published in a mutually supportive manner.