text: services, including population issues and child caree 27. The representative of ECLAC described the Commission's achievements and plans for expanding the treatment of women's issues, especially research and training activities dealing with statistical analysis, social planning, demographic analysis and human settlements. He noted the impact of the regional economic crisis on the situation of women and announced that the Fourth Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the•Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean would be held in Guatemala City in September 1988. -52-28. The representative of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia said that the Commission had introduced in its 1988-1989 social development programme one programme element on the participation of women in the inf,ormal sector and another, which included an assessment of socio-cultural changes in the Arab family and would examine the existing choices offered to women in terms of their roles at home and in the labour market and investigate possible alternatives that would provide women with a third choice, combining their responsibilities to thei~ families and their societies. Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations Secretariat 29. Many representatives expressed concern that progress to improve the sta.tus of women in the United Nations Secretariat continued to be slow. Several representatives noted that although the Secretary-General had given priority to women in the introduction to the programme budget for 1988-1989, much of the proposed action programme to improve the status of women in the Secretariat had yet to be implemented. 30. Several representatives suggested that the Office of the Co-ordinator for the improvement of the Status of Women in the Secretariat and its staff, including the associated high-level position, should remain in place until the major objectives of the action programme had been achieved. One representative stated that apparent 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing issues related to women's empowerment, equality, and participation in various sectors, including economic development, employment, and social development. It also mentions the improvement of the status of women within the United Nations Secretariat. These themes suggest that the category should be focused on social and economic development, rather than purely economic or environmental issues.