ABSTRACT
Green job initiatives instituted by governments, either in training or green job creation, that specifically include women are not prominent in practice and are highly contingent on policies geared towards the creation of green jobs in the first place. The problem is that the "green" components of these jobs are not strong, so the effects are rather limited. One potential exception to this was related to the massive amounts of money governments used to rescue economies during the Great Recession of 2008-9. This chapter shows that although unprecedented government "stimulus" actions were undertaken, the impact on both green jobs and the integration of women into a green workforce were exceptionally modest. It then focus on what insights can be gained about what worked best, what needs to be flagged as problems, and what types of programmes have the potential to actually integrate women into areas that have been traditionally male-dominated.
