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Employment 1. Of all the school leavers registered for employ- • . ment with the .Depart- . ment of Labour, 59 per cent are females and 41 per cent males. What , specific programmes do you see being necessary to overcome this problem? .. 2. What -programmes would you see implemented to help women needing to return to the paid workforce or who become redundant?

3 What is your attitude to the availability of the unemployment benefit for married persons? (N. 8. Married persons can apply but eligibility is affected by the spouses income, i.e. means tested. About $l7O a week gross would make a spouse ineligible.) , .. 4. Do you think that affirmative action would overcome the imbalance in the workforce whereby women are in the lowest , paid, least skilled jobs?

5. What is your view about implementing more flexible working conditions such as permanent parttime work, job sharing? Child Care And Human Rights 6. Do you support in principle. wide availability of quality child care with government, employer and ■ community support for all those who need it: including industrial creches, afterschool and school, holiday care? .

7. What is your opinion of the contraception, sterilisation and abortion act? Is there anything specifically you would like changed? 8. Do yoy support the Human Rights Aci in its preseni form? Parliamentary reform 9. Do you think some areas of'parliamentary reform are necessary, il so. which? 10. The Women's Appointment File has not been

used very often in the past. How do you see it being-used in the future to increase the numbers of women in decisionmaking positions? (N.B. The file was set up to ensure that women with proper qualifications and experience could be regularly and efficiently nominated for service oh suitable government-ap-pointed boards, committees and quasi-govern-mental advisory organisations. The file is kept in Wellington.)