thus article of cedaw requires states only to ensure the same rights for women and men in relation to the rights to work to employment opportunities to free choice of profession promotion job security and training to equal remuneration to social security and to protection of health and safety at work including safeguarding reproduction article ofthe iccpr simply requires state parties to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil and political rights set forth in the present covenant however it is now well established that the same treatment for men and women is unlikely to bring about change thus in order to address womens inequality it is necessary to focus on the specificity of women s disadvantage particularly by recognizing the link between discrimination in the home and discrimination at work and the extent to which women s primary responsibilityfor childcare and unpaid work in the home impacts on theirabilityto access good quality paid work