The gendered employment policy tool offers analytical frameworks and data suggestions to enable assessment of the gender differentiated employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis at the country level. It also identifies policy options to promote gender- responsive national employment strategies.

The tool considers interactions between the paid and the unpaid economy and is organized in several steps.

First, it provides a checklist of questions and indicators to help in mapping the gender structure of a particular economy with emphasis on pre-existing gender inequalities in labour markets

Second, it shows how to trace the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women’s employment and working conditions relative to men, differentiating by types of risk.

Third, it discusses policy options to support gender equitable employment outcomes and distinguishes between short-term measures and medium-term measures.

Fourth, it develops an organizing principle for tailoring policy responses to specific gender employment structures and socio-economic contexts.