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Forests employ approximately 42 million people worldwide, with women accounting for one quarter of the workforce, according to new research from FAO, International Labour Organization and Thünen Institute.   The “Updated methodology to quantify forest-sector employment: Global and regional estimates” presents fresh estimates that help close critical data gaps in global and regional forest-sector employment between 2011 and 2022.   The study also presents the first global sex-disaggregated employment estimates for the forest sector, revealing that women account for nearly 10.6 million jobs, or 25 percent of forest-sector employment, and highlighting persistent disparities between women and men across regions.   The widest disparity was found in Europe, where 1.8 percent of men and only 0.5 percent of women were employed in the forest sector in 2022. By contrast, these disparities were narrower in Africa, the Americas and Asia.   Read more: https://lnkd.in/en77Ranx