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Leading of an equal local authority:

• Appointment and employment of an adviser for the advancement
of the status of women, as required by law, in order to regularly
promote equality issues and prevent the exclusion of women,
while developing resources and harnessing government budgets.
The adviser and her activities will be budgeted.
• Professional training for departmental and division managers
and all employees of the local authority with the view of gender-
conscious management, and the use of tools to promote an equal
authority and to prevent exclusion, so that the municipal areas will
be best managed for the women and men in the local authorities.
• Urban budgeting from a gender perspective: Managing a budget
in a way that it analyses the current situation, examines gaps,
locates that which needs a change, proposes a policy change and
implements budgetary adjustments.
• Equitable representation at decision-making centers in the
authority and assurance of equal pay: For employees (women and
men) of the authority, people in senior positions, public bodies,
municipal committees, municipal boards, religious councils
and more; taking the initiative with supporting procedures and
decisions.
• Encouragement of parents who work in the local authority
towards the norm of balancing workplace and the home and an
equitable division between the parents, as to work hours and end
of working days, recognition of work at home, absences and the
like.
• Establishment of a committee for gender equality - as one of the
local authority›s committees.