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Ninety-third Session Agenda item 21.1
EB93.R17
26 January 1994
Accelerating the employment and
participation of women in the work of WHO
The Executive Board,
Recalling earlier resolutions of the Executive Board and the Health Assembly on this subject, and in particular resolution WHA46.24;
Reaffirming the urgent need for a better balance between women and men on the staff of W H O and more equitable participation in the Organization's programme of work;
Noting with concern the slow rate of progress being made towards this goal;
Particularly concerned that women continue to be grossly under-represented at the hi^iest levels and also, grade for grade, less often in positions of designated responsibility than men,
1. REQUESTS the Director-General and the Regional Directors:
(a) to ensure that, in cases where qualified women have not applied for a vacant post in the professional category, the Programme Manager concerned and the Division of Personnel undertake an active search for such candidates;
(b) to see to it that the short-list of candidates submitted to a selection committee for professional category posts includes qualified women candidates;
(c) to pay particular attention to anything that might obstruct the employment of married women and mothers;
2. URGES the Director-General to henceforth give priority consideration, where qualifications are equal, to the appointment of women candidates at the D.2 and ungraded levels;
3. REQUESTS the Director-General to report annually to the Executive Board on action taken to increase the number of women at the most senior levels.
Fourteenth meeting, 26 January 1994 EB93/SR/14
