Law on Gender Equality.

This Law provides for principles of gender equality in all fields of social and family life, measures ensuring gender equality, responsibilities of agencies, organizations, families, individuals in exercising gender equality.
The gender equality goals are to eliminate gender discrimination, to create equal opportunities for man and woman in socio-economic development and human resources development in order to reach substantial equality between man and woman, and to establish and enhance cooperation and mutual assistance between man and woman in all fields of social and family life.
State policies on gender equality include: 1. To ensure gender equality in all fields of politics, economy, culture, society and family; 2. To protect and support the mother during pregnancy, giving birth and upbringing her child; to facilitate man and woman in sharing housework; 3. To apply appropriate measures to eliminate backward customs and habits hindering the implementation of the gender equality goal; 4. To encourage agencies, organizations, families and individuals to take part in the gender equality promoting activities; 5. To support gender equality activities in the remote and mountainous areas, in areas of ethnic minority groups and areas still in extremely difficult socio-economic conditions; etc.