Gender in employment

The Gender in Employment Group at EMPLAB ensures that the strategies, programmes and policies EMPLAB promotes, and their implementation at the national, regional and global levels, are gender responsive. Policies are gender responsive when they pursue gender-equality objectives, based on diagnoses of how different policy options affect women and men.

The Group has ample experience working with our constituents and teaming up with our employment specialist in different countries, most recently in Viet Nam, Colombia and Jamaica, and supporting the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. Based on our experience, we have developed a coherent set of tools that have been at the core of the ITC-Turin training on Gender and Employment Policies. They are:

• The Technical Guidance Note Gender-responsive National Employment Policies: A path for gender equality, which provides guidance to countries on how to develop and implement a gender-responsive NEPs, based on gender-responsive diagnostics and lessons learnt over 20 years of implementation.
• The GENSEC Policy Tool, which offers key criteria and indicators to identify the sectors that would maximize decent employment opportunities for women. This tool also helps to identify opportunities for removing barriers that prevent women from entering dynamic and high-productivity sectors.
• The Guide to Public Investments in the Care Economy, developed in the framework of the UN Women-ILO Joint Programme “Promoting decent employment for women through inclusive growth policies and investments in care”, which shows: how to identify the coverage gaps in care services (namely public healthcare, long-term care, early childhood care & education, and primary and secondary education); how to estimate the costs of public investments and expenditures for eliminating these coverage gaps; and how to assess the various economic returns to such investments in the short- and the long-run.