Women in low-income countries continue to face significant barriers to obtaining paid work, and when employed suffer worse pay and working conditions than men. Although in the 1980s and 1990s women’s participation in labour markets in developing countries grew substantially, over the past ten years, the tendency toward increased participation has slowed down. Women are disproportionally represented in vulnerable employment and low-wage, insecure informal employment, and remain vastly underrepresented in administrative and management roles. Women also still face discrimination in paid work, and unpaid work in the home and community also continue to go unrecorded. Recent research continues to push for changes and alerts us to the gaps in research resulting from recent trends, such as the implications of globalisation, the increasing informalisation of labour, and the impacts of recent global crises.
