ILO Policy Tool
GENSEC: A Gender-responsive Sectoral Policy Tool
The GENSEC policy tool helps governments integrate gender equality objectives into sectoral and industrial policies, to expand decent employment opportunities for women and to remove barriers that prevent them from entering dynamic and high-productivity sectors.
Why it matters
Sectoral policies can contribute to addressing gender inequalities in the quantity and quality of employment. Without explicit measures, structural change can reinforce gender inequalities and limit women’s access to the most productive sectors.
Who is it for?
- Ministries of Labour, Industry, Planning, Financing, Women’s and Equality
- Social partners
- Development partners and researchers working on structural transformation and on gender equality
- Economic policy advisers
Background
This report emerges from the work of the UN Women–International Labour Organization UN Women-ILO Joint Programme Promoting decent employment for women through inclusive growth policies and investments in care, and from lessons learned in applying a gender-responsive diagnostic policy tool in five countries.
Additional details
Author(s)
- Valeria Esquivel (EMPLAB, ILO)
- Marzia Fontana (IDS, University of Sussex)
References
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