Independent Opinion of CEDAW VI. Disadvantaged Groups of Women CEDAW Articles 2-4, 7, 9-14, 16 ∣ SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16 Response to 2022 CEDAW Report 7.1-7.4, 9.8-9.9, 11.3, 11.18, 12.11, 12.18-12.20, 13.113.3, 14.25, 14.27-14.28, 16.17-16.19; Core Document 30 24. In 2014 and 2018, the IRC urged the government to collect and improve wage statistics and compare them by gender, skill level, industry, occupation, age, and ethnicity. However, the government has not collected complete cross-sectional statistics on groups such as indigenous women, middle-aged and elderly women, immigrant women, women with disabilities, and women from rural areas, ignoring the heterogeneity of these groups, which hinders the overall assessment of and policy development for their rights. Women from disadvantaged groups face unequal access to health, political participation, employment and economic security, and family rights.
Recommendation 16 The government should compile cross-agency statistical data to improve basic statistics and assessment reports on the situation of women from disadvantaged groups, so as to reflect their relatively ¯28¯