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The motherhood penalty for working women in Spain

Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela


Spain has seen a huge influx of women into the workplace in recent decades, but their experiences of work remain very different from those of men. As Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela explain, there is scope for new family-friendly policies to help to close gender gaps in the labour market and to boost fertility rates.


15 June 2021     Paper Number CEPCP609

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