29- وتشمل التدابير التي اتخذها عدد من الدول الأطراف لضمان المشاركة المتساوية من جانب المرأة في الوظائف الوزارية أو الإدارية الرفيعة المستوى كعضوات في الهيئات الاستشارية الحكومية، ما يلي: إقرار قاعدة مفادها ضرورة تفضيل المرشحة عند تساوي مؤهلات الأشخاص المحتمل تعيينهم واعتماد قاعدة مفادها ضرورة ألا يشكل أي من الجنسين أقل من 40 في المائة من أعضاء أي هيئة عامة؛ وتخصيص حصة للمرأة في مجلس الوزراء ولتعيينها في الوظائف العامة؛ والتشاور مع المنظمات النسائية بما يكفل ترشيح النساء المؤهلات لعضوية الهيئات والوظائف العامة، وإنشاء والاحتفاظ بسجلات لهؤلاء النساء، من أجل تسهيل ترشيح المرأة توطئة لتعيينها في الهيئات والوظائف العامة.
When reporting on measures taken to comply with article 12, States parties are urged to recognize its interconnection with other articles in the Convention that have a bearing on women's health. Those articles include article 5 (b), which requires States parties to ensure that family education includes a proper understanding of maternity as a social function; article 10, which requires States parties to ensure equal access to education, thus enabling women to access health care more readily and reducing female student drop-out rates, which are often a result of premature pregnancy; article 10 (h), which requires that States parties provide to women and girls access to specific educational information to help ensure the health and well-being of families, including information and advice on family planning; article 11, which is concerned, in part, with the protection of women's health and safety in working conditions, including the safeguarding of the reproductive function, special protection from harmful types of work during pregnancy and with the provision of paid maternity leave; article 14, paragraph 2 (b), which requires States parties to ensure access for rural women to adequate health-care facilities, including information, counselling and services in family planning, and (h), which obliges States parties to take all appropriate measures to ensure adequate living conditions, particularly housing, sanitation, electricity and water supply, transport and communications, all of which are critical for the prevention of disease and the promotion of good health care; and article 16, paragraph 1 (e), which requires States parties to ensure that women have the same rights as men to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children and to have access to the information, education and means to enable them to exercise those rights.