given the extent of gender segregation in labour markets generally and within industry in particular where women constitute only per cent of the global workforce there is a risk that efforts to green industry will not only bypass women but actually marginalize them sectors targeted for green employment expansion such as energy construction and basic industry are very maledominated and recent trends indicate that sectoral segregation is increasing rather than decreasing among green jobs that already exist women tend to have low representation andor occupy the lower valueadded rungs in developing economies women are highly concentrated on the low valueadded end of extant green jobs for instance as informal workers in waste collection and recycling strietskallina and others