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Direct Link to POWER POINT:
Global Forum on Gender Statistics
Rome, Italy - December 2007
ISTAT - Italian National Statistical
Institute - Power Point
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ITALY - WOMEN - PAID & UNPAID
WORK: PERSPECTIVES FOR ANALYSIS
Labour Force Survey & Time Use
Survey - The aim is to show that only an integrated approach to these data make
the contribution of Italian women to the economy more visible.
"In Europe, the Italian women
have the greatest household workload. Swedish women have the least."
The female employment rate is still
very distant in Italy, from the European average, despite the growth registered
in the last years.
For women, the difference between
Europe's and Italy's employment rate reaches 11 percentage points. Italy's
female employment rate, indeed, equals 45.3%, that is, higher only to that
registered by Malta.
Even among the employed women, the
unpaid workload is greater in Italy.
Italian men dedicate less time than
other European men to housework and care activities, and more to paid work.
Italian women spend more time
working when they have no famiy workload, and thus when they are single or live
at home with their parents. The fact of living with a partner and, especially,
having children, involves a decrease in the time dedicated to paid work.
The family context strongly
influences the presence of women in Italy in the labour market.
In Italy, the traditional role
division has persisted: Men invest more in paid work, and women take care of
most of the household work, even when they have entered the labour market and
must deal with a work overload that is difficult to manage.
The necessity of taking care of
children is the most frequent reason for inactivity in the work force or for
leaving the labour market, given by Italian women from all generations, young
and less young.
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