This report examines the role of gender in shaping transitions from school to employment for young women and girls and provides an overview of many of the challenges faced by youth globally in terms of employment. The report concludes that being young and female does, in fact, serve as a double strike in terms of productive employment and provides recommendations for both macro-level policy interventions and more micro-level interventions, such as interventions aimed at providing out-of-school youth the opportunity for ‘second-chance’ education (2016).