42.6% of mothers between 25 and 54 are not employed and 39.2% with 2 or more minor children are on part-time contracts. Only a little more than 1 open-ended contract out of 10 activated is in favor of women in the first half of 2021. In 2020 alone, there were more than 30 thousand women with children who have resigned resignation. For the seventh consecutive year, Save The Children disseminates the report “The Equilibrists. Maternity in Italy 2022” with the values of the Italian regions where being a mother is more or less simple, with the North at the top and the South, albeit at the bottom of the ranking, but recovering in services to the first childhood.
The “critical picture” that emerges from the Save the Children research, published on the eve of Mother’s Day, and which concerns about 6 million “balanced” mothers who divide themselves between family and work life, often without support and with a burden of care, exacerbated by the pandemic.
Even the slight economic recovery last year was characterized by “gender injustices”: of the 267,775 permanent contract transformations in the first half of 2021, only 38% concern women. If we look at the total number of contractual activations (out of the total of all activations) in the 1st semester for women (just over 1.3 million), most of them (38.1%) are on a fixed-term basis; seasonal work (17.7%), administration (15.3%) and, last but not least, the indeterminate (14.5%) follow. Of the more than 2 million contracts activated for men, almost half (44.4%) are on a fixed-term basis, immediately followed by the permanent one (18%).
42.6% of women with children in the 25-54 age group are not employed, with a gap compared to men of more than 30 percentage points. The figure changes considerably depending on the area of the country, reaching a peak of 62.6% in the South, from 35.8% in the Center and from 29.8% in the North. While the employment rate of fathers tends to grow as the number of minor children in the household increases, that of mothers tends to diminish.
Even the data on the validation of the resignations of working mothers and workers fathers of children of 0-3 speak for themselves: out of 42,377 cases in 2020, 77.4% concern women. Working mothers represent 77.2% (30,911) of the total of voluntary resignations, compared to 9,110 for fathers. Out of all the reasons indicated in the validations, the one most frequently reported continues to be the difficulty of reconciling professional life with the needs of childcare.
Source: Ansa
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