campaigning and raising awareness among young men and women parents teachers and employers about genderstereotypical attitudes towards academic performances and the likely consequences of overall educational choices for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities career progression and earnings encouraging more women who have completed stem studies to pursue professional careers in these areas for example by means of career counselling adult education internships apprenticeships and targeted financial support designing taxbenefit systems so that both parents have broadly similar financial incentives to work securing availability of and access to affordable goodquality early childhood education and care as well as affordable longterm care for other dependants including for example disabled children or elderly relatives