The employment rate for women
climbed to 49.1% in the second quarter of 2017, according to
unadjusted data released by ISTAT on Tuesday. The figure is up
0.6 of a percentage point on the same period last year and the
highest level since the start of the statistical series in 1977.
Nevertheless, the Italy was second-bottom in the EU for the
proportion of women in work in 2016, lagging 13.2 points on the
European average, with only Greece doing worse, ISTAT said.
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