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Birth rate: women and work, difficult relationship for 8 out of 10 - Lifestyle

2022-05-16T10:56:49.341Z


Eight out of 10 women declare that they have suffered negative consequences on their working life after the birth of their child, mainly motivated by the difficulty of reconciling work and family. (HANDLE)


Eight out of 10 women declare that they have suffered negative consequences on their working life after the birth of their child, mainly motivated by the difficulty of reconciling work and family.

60% of women fear repercussions at work and thus postpone the decision to become a mother.

During the second edition of the General States of birth, Sfera MediaGroup, the childhood division of RCS MediaGroup, presented the results of the research "Companies and birth rates in Italy", aimed at investigating the different dynamics that have occurred between worker and company , pre and post maternity.


    More virtuous in terms of welfare, explains a note, are small companies and those in the Center-South, the North-West is black.

The most decisive welfare tools are those linked to reconciliation, primarily time flexibility.

70% of female workers would accept smart working (80% of those who have already tried it).

New fathers do not give up work, only 40% take advantage of three-day paternity leave From the survey carried out by the Family Observatory of Sfera MediaGroup, by Federico Gilardi (Market Research Manager of Sfera MediaGroup), aimed at mothers with at least one child under the age of 6 and carried out through the Sfera and Rcs databases, the importance of the role of companies in the decision-making process of birth emerges strongly, with worrying data.


    In fact, work in Italy is perceived by mothers as one of the obstacles to birth: more than 60% (and 35% very importantly) of women responding to the Sfera MediaGroup research declares that the fear of negative consequences at work, and in particularly due to the difficulty of reconciling work and family, it delayed their choice to have children.


    A motivated fear: in fact, in 80% of cases, mothers declare that they have had negative consequences, especially related to the difficulty of reconciling work / family following the birth of their first child, thus increasing the fear of thinking about a subsequent child, given that found both in the age at childbirth and in the total number of children.


    It then emerges how companies feed fears: disfavouring or not expressing a clear position on the issue and not activating dedicated welfare tools.

It is outlined how, contrary to common thought, on average small companies are more virtuous than medium-sized companies and also large companies and how the phenomenon, although transversal to the whole of Italy, sees the center-south slightly more attentive and, on the contrary, the north-west among the most negative.

Among the welfare instruments considered most decisive by mothers, those for conciliation stand out: with the request for flexibility in hours (50%), followed by the company crèche (24%).


    In this sense, over 70% of respondents (which rises to 80% of those who have already tried it) consider smart working a useful ally for reconciliation and most would agree to do so.

Among the different models, the one considered most effective is the hybrid one, with more days in smart working than in presence.


    Among the elements detected, it is also highlighted that fathers do not give up work to be next to their mothers: only 40% of new fathers took advantage of the 3-day paternity leave (only subsequently extended to 10 days), less than 10% takes more than a week of vacation and, also for cultural reasons, only a very marginal part would accept a substitution between maternal and paternal leave.


    The grandparents, on the other hand, are irreplaceable, fundamental for 67% of parents to be able to cope with the management of their children: during work, in emergencies, for school commitments or even just to carve out a space for rest.


    During the three meetings It can be done: Health, Conciliar and Reality proposed by Sfera within the largest Italian event dedicated to the contrast of the demographic crisis organized by the newborn Foundation for the birth rate, chaired by Gigi De Palo, there was also a point between media and health, support and prevention, welfare and reconciliation, maternity and paternity and work.


    Among the most urgent needs to be put into a system by the three meetings emerged: the promotion of a balanced media narrative, capable of building a realistic, supportive social story of motherhood and fatherhood based on solid scientific knowledge;

the creation of a synergistic project regarding education for young people and support for families throughout Italy;

the implementation of concrete actions aimed at reconciling work and family, through corporate welfare, smart working, parental leave.


    Shared corporate "best cases" show that work and children are compatible.


    "The data that emerged from the research and from the round tables underline a bleak situation, but they also say that there are solutions - concludes Chiara Bidoli, director of the RCS MediaGroup childhood magazines - From here we have to start again, even with drastic changes in mentality. Doctors, specialists, entrepreneurs, journalists all agree, we need to move now and concretely help families, in the public as well as in the private sector ".

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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