The health and care sector is a major source of employment globally, particularly for women, who in 2020, made up 67.2% of workers in the health and care sector worldwide. The relative attractiveness of this sector to women in paid employment offers clear opportunities to drive women’s economic empowerment. Ensuring that women health and care workers are adequately valued, supported, protected and promoted are core to the attainment of the targets set in the World Health Organization Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 and the Working for Health 2022-2030 Action Plan.