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Gender gap in work, Italy last in the European Union

Italy is the rear. In the labor sector, as far as gender equality is concerned, our country obtains the lowest score in the whole of the European Union. Eige data (European Institute for Gender Equality), referring to 2020, note that the average monthly salary of women amounts to almost a fifth less than that of men: women are mainly employed in sectors where wages are lower (for example in schools, rather than in information technology, where they earn better) and are often forced to accept employment contracts that they have not chosen (just think that, in addition 60% of cases, women working part time would prefer full time hours).

Italian women also have fewer opportunities to make a career and dedicate themselves to work: according to the Eige index, they have four times more likely than men to spend their time cooking and do household chores. Every day they do an unpaid type of work for at least an hour. Childcare is also often delegated to mothers: in couples with children, the gender gap is even wider. The result is that women remain on the margins of their careers: 82% of managers are men. In Italy, in 2021, CEO positions occupied by women fell to 18%, ending up below the Eurozone average (21%) and international surveys (26%), according to the annual report. Women in Business di Grant Thornton.

Especially women who have an income of less than 1500 euros per month, then, often find themselves forced to have to leave the workplace because they are unable to cope with the many obstacles they encounter, especially the lack of services and the tax system that discourages second income. As many as 52% of Italian women, more than half of the total, therefore, do not work.

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