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The surge of women into the labour market has been one of the defining features of socio-economic change in Europe and many other parts of the world since the 1970s. In the OECD countries women’s employment rates have risen over this period, the gender gap in educational attainment have been erased to the point that women are overtaking men in that among those aged 25–34 years more women than men have tertiary level qualifications (OECD, 2010). On average women now constitute one third of staff with managerial responsibilities in the OECD (Adema, 2011).
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© 2012 Maria C. González Menéndez, Colette Fagan and Silvia Gómez Ansón
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González Menéndez, M.C., Fagan, C., Ansón, S.G. (2012). Introduction. In: Fagan, C., González Menéndez, M.C., Gómez Ansón, S. (eds) Women on Corporate Boards and in Top Management. Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307735_1
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