Less than a third of women work in southern Italy - new report
Only 28.9 per cent of women living in southern Italy, fewer than one in three, are in employment, compared to 52 per cent in the north of the country, retailers association Confcommercio said in a report on Saturday.
Confcommercio says "if Italy's unemployment rate for women, which is 11.1 per cent, were brought down to the European level of 7.2 per cent, there would be 433,000 more women in work". (Photo: ANSA)
Confcommercio says "if Italy's unemployment rate for women, which is 11.1 per cent, were brought down to the European level of 7.2 per cent, there would be 433,000 more women in work". (Photo: ANSA)
It said the employment rate for women for the whole of Italy was 43.6 per cent, while the EU average is 54.1 per cent.
Confcommercio said that the employment rate for men was lower than the EU average too, but by much less, with 60.3 per cent of males in Italy in work, while the rate for the whole bloc is 64.7 per cent.
“If Italy's unemployment rate for women, which is 11.1 per cent, were brought down to the European level of 7.2 per cent, there would be 433,000 more women in work,” Confcommercio said.
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