The Second Commission on the Status of Women will shortly be appointed. The commission will be broadly based, representative of a wide range of knowledge and experience.
The following are the terms of reference of the commission: to review the implementation of the recommendations of the first Commission on the Status of Women as set out in that commission's report to the Minister for Finance in December 1972; to consider and make recommendations on the means, administrative and legislative, by which women will be able to participate on equal terms and conditions with men in economic, social, political and cultural life and, to this end, to consider the efficacy and feasibility of positive action measures; in the context of (ii) above, to pay special attention to the needs of women in the home; to establish the estimated costs of all recommendations made; and to report to the Government within a period of 18 months from the date of its establishment.
It is intended that the commission will be appropriately funded.