The gender gap is an issue that is increasingly in the spotlight: cultural differences are still entrenched and go to constitute inequalities in multiple social areas, including the work sphere, where a gender pay gap is evident in addition to the gender gap. Taking a snapshot of the current scenario was the work of LHH - a unique and global provider of end-to-end HR solutions that guides companies and people through the entire career cycle - which, together with the JobPricing Observatory and IDEM | Mind The Gap, has drawn up an analysis on the subject. Among the many pieces of evidence, women have made a great deal of progress in the last 30 years in terms of labor market participation, but the road still shows itself to be long and equality is far from being achieved. Suffice it to say that female workers in Italy are likely to start receiving a salary from February, although they have been working regularly since January 1. In 2022, women's employment returned to growth, exceeding 51 percent, compared to 69 percent for men. The increase in the number of women entering or re-entering the labor force is also evidenced by the reduction in the unemployment rate, which stands at 9.5 percent for women and 7 percent for men. The increase in women's economic participation in employment does not solve an obvious gender gap, as fewer women are employed, find fewer jobs and tend to be less driven to join the labor force, or, discouraged by the difficulty of finding employment, give up looking for it more easily than men. However, this consideration does not hold true for all: from the perspective of educational attainment, it is mainly non-college graduates who discount a lower presence in the sector than their colleagues. In contrast, female college graduates with employment outnumber men.
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