it goes on to document both the declining availability of good jobs overall and women s increasing marginalization from them even as their employment rate relative to men s has risen it focuses on evaluating the effects of structural transformation and technological change and the structural and policy consequences of globalization and growth section f evaluates how womens employment prospects affect the labour share of income underscoring how gender inequality in the labour market is damaging for all workers both women and men different types of economic shocks or patterns of growth affect women and men differently for example when labourintensive exports increase the relative demand for womens labour or austerity programmes have disproportionately adverse impacts on mothers and children