Right to Decent Work. The State shall progressively realize and ensure decent work standards for womenthatinvolve the creation of jobs of acceptable quality in conditions of freedom, equity, security, and human dignity. (a) Decent work involves opportunities for work that are productive and fairly remunerative as family living wage, security in the workplace, and social protection for families, better prospectsfor personal developmentandsocial integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organize, participate in the decisionsthataffecttheirlives, and equality of opportunity and treatmentfor all women and men. (b) The State shall further ensure: 1. Support services and gears to protect them from occupational and health hazards taking into account women's maternal functions; 2. Support servicesthat will enable women to balancetheir family obligations and work responsibilities including, but notlimited to, the establishment of day care centers and breast-feeding stations at the workplace, and providing maternity leave pursuant to the Labor Code andotherpertinent laws; 3. Membership in unions regardless of status of employment and place of employment; and 4. Respect for the observance of indigenous peoples' cultural practices even in the workplace. (c) In recognition of the temporary nature of overseas work,the State shall exert all efforts to address the causesofout-migration by developing local employmentand other economic opportunities for women and by introducing measures to curb violence and forced and involuntary displacement of local women. The State shall ensure the protection and promotionof the rights and welfare of migrant women regardless of their work status, and protect them against discrimination in wages, conditions of work, and employment opportunities in host countries. Ear Right to Livelihood, Credit, Capital, and Technology. The State shall ensure that womenareprovided with the following: a. Equalaccess to formal sources ofcredit and capital; b. Equal share to the produceof farms and aquatic resources; and c. Employment opportunities for returning women migrantworkers taking into accounttheir skills and qualifications. Corollarily, the State shall also promoteskills and entrepreneurship developmentof returning women migrant workers. Section Right to Education and Training. The State shall ensure the following: a. Women migrant workers havethe opportunity to undergo skills training,if they so desire, before taking on a foreign job, and possible retraining upon returnto the country; b. Gender-sensitive training and seminars; and c. Equal opportunities in scholarships based on merit and fitness especially to those interested in research and developmentaimed towards women-friendly farm technology. Ere Right to Representation and Participation. The State shall ensure women's participation in policy-making or decision-making bodies in the regional, national, and international levels. It shall also ensure the participation of grassroots women leaders in decision and policy-making bodies in their respective sectors including, but not limited to, the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) andits local counterparts; community based resource managementbodiesor mechanismson forest managementand stewardship; 36