Gender disparity, analysis and data on involuntary part-time work imposed on women: how to combat it

The loss of the negotiating power of those who work. One of the causes of the serious inequalities that afflict societies is the loss of the negotiating power of labor. In particular, in Italy there are too many workers who experience work as a gift and not as a constitutionally recognized right, and among the phenomena that characterize the country, anomalously compared to the European context, there is part-time involuntary which today affects over 2 million workers.

The paradox. A paradox if you consider that part-time work is considered one of the ways that many parts of the world are looking at to allow the reduction of working times to be transformed for everyone, regardless of gender, into a rebalancing of life time. and working times. Instead, in Italy it is very often the involuntary result of a marginalization of work which especially affects women who do not benefit from this condition, neither in terms of reconciling work and life times nor in terms of remuneration.

Suggestions for politics. The report deals with this theme and highlights how gender equity and quality of work are still far away, containing an analysis of data that gives life to a snapshot of the phenomenon of involuntary part-time work, but also proposals who suggest solutions to the political world to counter it.

Who prepared the report. The report was developed by a working group gathered around Inequality and Diversity Forumcomposed by Giorgia Amato, researcher of Forum; Susanna Camusso, senator of the Democratic Party; Daniela Luisi, researcher and member ofForum Assembly; Matteo Luppi, INAPP researcher; Federica Pintaldi, Istat research manager and Silvia Vaccaro, communication manager of Inequalities Forum.

They will discuss it. Pierangelo Albini, head of work, welfare and human capital, Confindustria; Chiara Davoli, sociologist and researcher atUniversity of Urbino: Fabrizio Russo, general secretary Filcams and Annamaria Simonazzi, Sapienza Foundation and president of G. Brodolini Foundation.