Workers Cooperatives: A Means to Reduce Discrimination?

In Argentina, workers cooperatives are becoming an empowering method to achieve women's rights in equal labour treatment.  These worker cooperatives are not only providing easier routes to employment for women but also sexual minorities traditionally excluded from the workplace.  Cooperatives seem to be an effective way for helping the marginalized and reducing poverty so far where they have been implemented.

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