MATERNITY 'AND WORK IN LOMBARDY a problematic situation - Comments to the 2009 present as received Office of Councillor of equality, the report on 2009 data on motherhood and work in Lombardy, relating to parental leave and rest and the resignation in the first year of the child, according to TU 151/2001-
Compared to surveys in previous years, the data are more complex, in particular, were drawn up a set of quality indicators relating to the resignation in the first year of the child, and with the regional list is divided by province which offers a view deeper and more particularly territorial.
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optional leave : workers who have benefited are 65,239 that shows a slight increase compared to 2008 is that in 2007 in line with a slight increase the birth rate is raised from 1 Lombard, 2% in previous years, the 1, 4% today. Sharing his father's use of the abstention optional always hovers around a less than 5%, stable in time that does not grow.
It 'been emphasized by the CGIL, the need for tools incentive for fathers, as well as information campaigns and cultural stimulus towards men and businesses to encourage shared parenting and aware. The significant female wage gap, in Lombardy, is an economic obstacle to a full share in the care of children.
Daily rests : The number reported is very small in 2009 and 1004 were the only point worth noting is the fact that fathers are using them much higher percentage than to optional, in fact, the daily rest enjoyed by their fathers are equal to 27.58% those of mothers. Men seem to prefer to treat short leave of absence day instead of using full-time work.
Resignation of the mother in the first year of the child : the total number in 2009 was 4571 (resigned in 2008 and 5581 were found to be 5,819 in 2007). It shows a decrease from the previous two years, although this apparently better, must take account of the economic crisis that has affected all sectors of production and that has probably influenced the behavior of women. Furthermore, the increase in youth unemployment exceeds the female in Lombardy 25%, affecting in particular women with atypical employment contracts parasubordinate and not covered by these data, making it invisible. By adding the
resignation in the first year of the child be aggregated from 2006 to 2009 we arrive at a number of more than 20,000 women who quit their jobs in our region.
The data tell us that women are young, educated who have invested in their education but who can not cope with the problems that motherhood entails in terms of reconciliation.
's age where there are the resignations are mainly concentrated on the range from 26 to 35 years but it is also significant range from 36 to 45 years, confirming the data to decide social motherhood relatively late age. There is the opposite for the length of service for which the vast majority of women who resigned from work has a 'length of service not exceeding three years, confirming the conditions of insecurity that characterize the young women's work.
The number of resignations was highest among mothers who have just one child but there is a significant percentage of women who leave the job to the birth of their second child.
interesting to note that the trend the resignation decreases with increasing the size of farms, the group of firms less friendly for women and children remains that up to 15 employees where more than 60% of the resignation. As for the sectors for the resignation have focused in particular on trade, although in some provinces there are different situations that reflect the local labor market. Obviously times particularly dilated and articulated
trade, which also include holidays make it impossible to reconcile.
The reasons reported by women are dictated primarily by the lack of family support which is indicative of social and geographical situation of Lombardy, where kinship groups are often scattered throughout the area, where the phenomenon of commuting and geographical mobility are booming. If this reasoning plus the women who say they found no place nursery and we add these women who are fired for not getting the part-time, we note that about 60% of women
Lombard leaves his job in the first year of the child, not by choice but by the impossibility of reconciling motherhood and work. All of the above causes an explosive mixture negative for motherhood instead has need public support, accessible service, time to care, flexibility for unforeseen events, incentive policies for the sharing of parental, especially in the early years of the child.
Women who have left in recent years from the labor market, may want to return and resume their work when their children are a bit 'grown up. Analysis of the data flow of the labor market Lombard tells us that the conditions of return in the labor market are always from the point of view that pay lower than the previous contract. This is another problematic little investigated and that instead has
need proposals and concrete projects aimed at facilitating the return of professional.
We believe that there is the need to open a serious discussion on women in Lombardy, on the existing structural weaknesses, the need to put forward proposals and concrete projects to enable them to perform both mothers, both 'work commitments and can express a true freedom of choice.
During the campaign the President Formigoni has pledged to support the reconciliation of Lombard women with a significant allocation resources and through a strategic committee bringing together the stakeholders. E'bene that we start the debate immediately that the choices are shared and agreed, recognizing the crucial role of representation of trade unions.
CGIL Lombardia, April 23, 2010
