Covid: a Country in precarious balance between risks and opportunities. Women at the front-line

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic is accentuating and is bound to amplify the dimensions of weakness in the female world. Italian women are under pressure today more than ever. Domestic abuse, unpaid workloads, the difficult balance between work and family and uneasy access to the labour market: these are the dimensions on which the future of gender equality in our country, where gender inequalities in the labour market are stronger than in the rest of Europe, is being played out. Only half of Italian women, in fact, work and women workers are very weak in the labour market and risk being strongly and further affected by the health crisis. But according to Tiziana Ferrario and Paola Profeta's report, these risks could be transformed into opportunities.