38 • AFRICAN YOUTH CHARTER f) Ensure that education material and teaching practices are gender sensitive and encourage girls and young women to undertake studies in the sciences; g) Provide educational systems that do not impede girls and young women, including married and/or pregnant young women, from attending; h) Take steps to provide equal access to health care services and nutrition for girls and young women; i) Protect girls and young women from economic exploitation and from performing work that is hazardous, takes them away from education or that is harmful to their mental or physical health; j) Offer equal access to young women to employment and promote their participation in all sectors of employment; k) Introduce special legislation and programmes of action that make available opportunities to girls and young women including access to education as a prerequisite and a priority for rapid social and economic development; l) Enact and enforce legislation that protect girls and young women from all forms of violence, genital mutilation, incest, rape, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, trafficking, prostitution and pornography;