Women at work, husbands unemployed. This is how 1 million families are saved.

Women have become crucial as a dam in the devastating, still-swollen river of the Great Depression. Yet they continue to receive salaries and pensions 30 percent lower than men. And they are still waiting for concrete interventions for nurseries and daycare centers.

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Women who support the family

WOMEN WHO SUPPORT THE FAMILY –

How many Italian families are there where only the woman works? Almost a million, 970 thousand to be preciseThe latest photograph taken by Istat on employment in our country, reports women, always the women, at the center of a tsunami that continues to hit the Italian economy and weaken our society.

Women's support is a barrier to the widespread malaise of employment struggling to recover and a still very fragile economy. And it's a barrier that can be summarized in this scenario: more and more men, especially young men, are losing or unable to find work. And more and more women, including immigrants, are managing, through their work, to avoid family poverty.

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MOTHERS WHO SUPPORT THE FAMILY –

In general 2 million 428 thousand families, equal to 12 percent of the total, live thanks to female incomeWe are now at one family in eight that depends on women, also burdened by domestic commitments (87 percent of which are covered by women). To understand the intensity of the phenomenon, just think that only in 2008, that is seven years ago, families Those who depended entirely on women were 1,731,000, or 9,6 percent of the total. Almost half of today.

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WOMEN IN THE WORLD OF WORK –

I am therefore Women saved Italy from the heaviness of the Great Crisis, despite the myriad disadvantages they face. With lower salaries than men and pensions reduced by 30 percent compared to those earned by men. With discrimination in accessing and throughout their careers. And in the absolute poverty of concrete support, the kind that makes a difference, to combine work and motherhood: nurseries, daycare centers, maternity support.

And finally there are the women, as we have seen on other occasions, who are exploring new avenues in employment and work, starting with the relaunch of the agricultural sector and the organic production sector. Now more than ever it is appropriate to say: long live the women!

HOW WOMEN ARE CHANGING THE WORLD OF WORK:

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