A system that produces denied work, reduced wages, interrupted careers, motherhood that becomes an obstacle and talent forced to emigrate. The “Invisible Column” report, created by the Center for the Anthropology of Religion and Generative Studies of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, promoted by Fondazione Poetica and supported by Unioncamere, returns the description of a country in which gender inequalities are the most resistant cogs of the economic and social system. And Calabria moves along a fault line.
Here the rate of female non-participation in work reaches 38.3%, which is the highest figure in Italy. It means that almost four out of ten women remain out of the employment market. Not by choice, but because they are crushed by a combination of insufficient wages, chronic precariousness, poor services and family burdens that continue to weigh almost entirely on their shoulders.
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