section c discusses why gender equality in employment is an essential aspect and measure of inclusive growth it then goes on to discuss analytical frameworks for evaluating gender in labour markets combining perspectives on the dynamics of gender stratification and intcrgroup inequality with analyses of how labour markets are structurally segmented into socalled good jobs and bad jobs it highlights that in the context of the growing scarcity of highquality work gender is one of the ways in which economic opportunity and security are rationed section d presents an empirical analysis focusing on the period since the early s when systematic genderdisaggregated data on employment by sector became available for developing countries it aigues that womens access to industrial sector jobs relative to that of men can proxy for their relative access to good jobs