Women work in jobs of poorer quality with wide income variability

Women tend to be concentrated in manufacturing of apparels and textiles and in services like education and health, while men are concentrated in the trade and hotels sector

Women tend to be concentrated in apparel and textile manufacturing and in services like education and health, while men are concentrated in the trade and hotels sector, and manufacturing including in heavy industry.

Nearly two in three urban jobs are concentrated in services (41%) and manufacturing (22%) in 2018-19 (trade at 19%, construction at 10%, agriculture at 6% and electricity, water and gas at 2% form the rest). When these numbers are compared with the urban jobs in 2011, it is clear that the share of manufacturing has declined by 1.2 percentage points (1.2 million jobs) and the share of