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Despite the increase of women participation in workforce over the last few decades, their presence still remains affected by numerous hindrances and mechanisms of segregation. As stated by the last OECD report [1], gender gap persists in all areas of social and economic life, even if the size of this gap has often changed.
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Guglielmi, D., Luppi, E. (2019). Women at Work. In: Tarricone, I., Riecher-Rössler, A. (eds) Health and Gender. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15038-9_7
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