The differences in access to the labor market, with a lower participation of women, continue to widen the gap, their pensions representing 60 % of those received by men.
By Allan Kaval (Rome, correspondent)
Between a labor market which is unfavorable to them and an insufficient consideration of the domestic work they provide to take care of the youngest and older, women continue to be the losers of the Italian pension system. The data published by the INPS, the National Social Security Institute, in its 2022 report have once shown it.
Admittedly, the wage differences between men and women are relatively low in Italy, thanks to a rather egalitarian distribution in the public sector and because women who access employment in general have a level of higher education than men. But, among other factors, differences in access to the Italian labor market, with a lower participation in women, continue to widen the gap between retirement gender, pensions perceived by women representing 60 % From those received by men, according to Inps.
Furthermore, only 45 % of retirement women receive pensions resulting from their past professional activity, when it is the case of 70 % of men. They are also overrepresented among the recipients of small pensions, while men are more represented as the tranches increase.
Family obligations
These inequalities are also verified from the point of view of the differences in capital accumulation, even if Italy is in the matter very close to the European average. Thus, according to the study “Global Gender Wealth Equity 2022”, of the WTW insurance consulting and brokerage group, the heritage built by women in Italy at the time of retirement corresponds to 76 % of that of men.
Beyond hourly wage differences-low, with a rate of 6 % which can however reach 17 % in the private sector-, inequalities between genres in the face of the retirement system are linked to family obligations which are impose on women in Italy. The devices making it possible to reconcile support for children where elderly parents are not enough to allow women to reconcile professional and family life in an optimal way.
The Italian case is indeed enlightened, according to the WTW study, by the particularly expensive nature of childcare services which can encourage mothers to abandon their activity to be able to raise their children, an unpaid domestic work further aggravating the deviations.
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