Education and health are also important sectors of employment for women.

In the OECD, they have been the fastest growing sectors in terms of employment since 1980.

Both the manufacturing and construction sectors lost their importance as major sources of employment and income.

In contrast, the agricultural and services sectors, and to a lesser extent commerce, became major sources of employment.

The panellist from Jamaica emphasized the importance of employment creation by TNCs in the major sectors of the Jamaican economy.

However, these three sectors functioned as the economy's shock absorber and managed to provide employment at the time of crisis.

Investment in employment intensive sectors, such as agriculture, was needed in order to reduce rural poverty and marginalization.

Article 26 and 27 provide for equal access to public places and equality of employment in the public and private sectors.

The ILO employment and social protection sectors developed a joint proposal for the agenda of the ninety sixth session (2007) of the International Labour Conference on the theme Employment and social protection in ageing societies .

(c) Respect for the equal right of women to work and their reintegration into employment in all sectors and at all levels of Afghan society

Noting also that the globalization process has had some benefits by providing opportunities for wage employment for rural women in new sectors,

Noting also that the globalization process has had some benefits by providing opportunities for wage employment for rural women in new sectors,

Noting also that the globalization process has had some benefits by providing opportunities for wage employment for rural women in new sectors,

On the other hand, in the short and medium run, it would also lead to shifts in output and employment in key sectors in developing countries, resulting in job losses in some sectors and revenue loss.

The Committee is concerned about lack of efforts to assess the impact of laws and policies on women's equality in such sectors as decision making, education, employment and health.

(ii) Supporting fully the equal right of women to work and strengthening efforts to promote their reintegration in employment in all sectors and at all levels of Afghan society

It is therefore of paramount importance for the PA not only to target employment generation schemes to the sectors that are able to absorb the shock of the labour released from the Israeli market, but also to design appropriate programmes to increase productivity in these sectors.

This will enable the Department for the Coordination of Emancipation Policy at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment to compare women's access to senior positions in different sectors of the labour market, and to draw conclusions on the relative impermeability of the glass ceilings in these sectors.

Furthermore, in both the private and public sectors, women had taken on greater responsibilities and policies to promote women's employment and participation would continue to be implemented.

Genuine and equitable growth could be achieved by ensuring that the benefits of development programmes reached even marginalized sectors, promoting decent and productive employment and making for a truly inclusive society.

It has also put more emphasis on ensuring that employment and decent work goals are incorporated in both the formal and informal sectors and in poverty reduction strategies.

Because the profession was illegal for many years and the situation was merely tolerated, employment relationships in the prostitution sector have developed differently from those in other sectors.

The Syrian strategy on the employment of youth is going to be managed and implemented at all stages through community interaction, including partners from all sectors the public, private and civil society.

The fundamental principle of the poverty reduction strategy paper is to promote employment generating economic growth and to invest significantly in priority sectors such as education, health and social safety net programmes.

In Germany, legislation came into force that provided incentives for job retention for workers with disabilities, while Japan established quotas for their employment in the public and private sectors.

The international community must support efforts to replace the vicious circle of underdevelopment, unemployment and violence with a virtuous circle of peace, development and productive employment and to make economic sectors benefit the working poor.

The informal sector plays a significant role in African economies since it offers the means for many people to cope with the severe lack of employment opportunities in the public and formal private sectors.

Within the context of globalization, macroeconomic policies, including those related to economic stability, external debt, taxation, investment, employment and markets, have a direct influence on the livelihoods of rural women, in both the formal and informal sectors.

Benign disinflation means rising real incomes for lenders, pensioners, and workers, and falling energy prices for industry. All sectors of the economy will spend more, pushing up output and employment (and sustaining the price level, too).

Moreover, the extremes of collapse were amplified by unnecessarily tight monetary policies which deepened the debt deflation process, served to depress output and employment and caused serious dislocations in the corporate and financial sectors (Stiglitz, 2002).

Benefits have included increased opportunities for off farm activities, including wage employment in non agricultural sectors, and enhanced opportunities for participation in local decision making and networking, including through information and communication technologies.

In 1998 The National Development Planning Agencies established a gender mainstreaming Working Group on Policy and Program Planning which focuses on five development sectors namely employment, education, justice, agriculture, cooperatives SMEs In 2000 the Working Group expanded its mandate to incorporate four additional sectors namely health, family planning, social welfare and environment.

analyzing linkages between the sectors of trade, investment, transport, tourism, and ICT sectors and poverty reduction

The characteristic of services as inputs to other sectors of the economy is clearly demonstrated in these sectors.

In several European countries that now confront fiscal and growth challenges, the pattern was somewhat different most of the excess consumption and employment was on the government side. But the effect was similar an unsustainable pattern of income and employment generation, and lower productivity and competitiveness in these economies tradable sectors, leading to trade deficits, stunted GDP, and weak job creation.

The challenge is to apply these insights in a world characterized by global economic interdependence, major imbalances, and a worsening growth and employment problem. It is a world in which economies are connected directly in the tradable sector of the global economy, and indirectly through the demand and employment linkages between the tradable and non tradable sectors of individual economies.

That strategy includes measures to achieve greater sustainable economic growth through a combination of strong exports and increased domestic and foreign investment stimulate the performance of employment generating sectors and promote the development of the rural economy and agriculture to alleviate poverty.

Key targets should be success in the negotiations over subsidies, implementation of special and differential treatment for developing countries that needed protection from international competition in sensitive but crucial sectors of their economy, and effective use of employment as a poverty reduction approach.

Affected sectors

and New Sectors of World Trade

Representation of women in various sectors

Acknowledges that the gender segmentation of the labour market creates an additional challenge for women in the economy, restricting opportunities for them in sectors traditionally dominated by men, and calls upon Governments and all other stakeholders, where appropriate, to make further efforts to address the gender wage gaps and gender segmentation of the labour market and to improve the conditions and security of women's employment in all sectors of the economy

Acknowledges that the gender segmentation of the labour market creates an additional challenge for women in the economy, restricting opportunities for them in sectors traditionally dominated by men, and calls upon Governments and all other stakeholders, where appropriate, to make further efforts to address the gender wage gaps and gender segmentation of the labour market and to improve the conditions and security of women's employment in all sectors of the economy

Contracts of employment

Adaptability of employment