In Italy, the decline in female employment during the Covid emergency was double the EU average with 402 thousand jobs lost between April and September 2020. The Labor Consultants write this: in fact, in the face of a decline in "4," 1% "of female workers between 15 and 64 years (-402,000 places) in our country in Europe the number, in the same age group, fell by 2.1%.
"After Spain, ours is the country with the highest contraction".
The Consultants' study recalls that in 2020 Italy should have reached the targets set by the Europe 2020 Strategy with the increase in the employment rate to 67%.
Independent female employment is paying a high price in Italy as the Covid-19 crisis progresses, since according to labor consultants in the months of April-September 2020, compared to the same period of the previous year, it decreased by "103,000 units, registering a contraction of 6.4%, practically double that recorded by men".
And, reads the study, released two days after March 8, "in no European country has there been such a sharp decline: on average, self-employed people have decreased by 1.6%, more or less than males. (-1.9%) ".
On the one hand, it is explained, "this is due to the sectoral impact of the crisis that has penalized above all the tourism-leisure sector, catering and commercial activities", production sectors traditionally "with a high density of micro-entrepreneurial female work" in Boot.
And, on the other hand, the "fragility" of the independent 'pink' segment must be taken into consideration, an element supported, the professionals point out, by "a recent survey carried out by Eurostat on self-employment in the member countries", according to which "on the 17th, 5% of Italians who carry out their own business do so for a single client ", a percentage," almost double the European average (9.2%), but also the highest in the continent ", we read, finally.