women are generally as active as men in cash crop production often providing the bulk of labour on contracted farms there are however important gender differences in control over the commercial proceeds men are contracted while women supply unpaid family labour and in the scale of operations due to the constraints women face on increasing sales of their produce global employment trends supporting data sets employment by status and sex accessed july note data for the following countries are unavailable djibouti kiribati sao tome and principe south sudan sudan former timorleste tuvalu and vanuatu evidence from a number of studies points to similar dynamics in both traditional export sectors eg cocoa coffee and tea and nontraditional exports eg fruit horticulture and flowers