Pregnancy test planned for competition, an emblematic case involves two municipalities in the province of Torino, and the unions rise up: “It is discrimination”. The negative outcome of the pregnancy test to be able to participate in the competition for a position as commissioner of the traffic police.
On this requirement requested by two municipalities in the province of Turin, Vigone and Torre Pellice, a trade union threatens a complaint to the Prosecutor, considering it illegitimate and discriminatory. Of the case, reported by the newspaper The printspeak out Loredana Cristinonational manager of the CSA local police union, and the Turin lawyer Vittorio Barosioexpert in administrative law.
He tests
The pregnancy test is asked in view of a athletic test, the 1,000 meters to run within 6 minutes and 30 seconds, for women. “Asking a candidate for a traffic police post for a pregnancy test is discriminatory,” says the trade unionist. “The announcement does not assign to aspiring traffic officers functions such as to require as a requirement for admission to the competition a test of physical efficiency consisting in being able to run 1,000 meters, and moreover in a limited time. It therefore seems to me that the establishment of this requirement is not legitimate “, the lawyer Barosio explains to La Stampa.
“The fact that she also asks women for a negative pregnancy test – this is only due to the fact that, in the presence of a pregnancy, the candidate cannot take the test of 1,000 meters of running, appears unreasonable (and therefore illegitimate, because it was finalized). to the possibility of carrying out a test that is not legitimate, as excessive in relation to the functions required of candidates“, Underlines the lawyer Vittorio Barosio, an expert in administrative law.
“The announcement does not assign functions such as to require as a requirement for admission to the competition a test of physical efficiency consisting in being able to run 1,000 meters, and moreover in a limited time to aspiring police officers – in his words -. It seems to me therefore that the fixation of this requirement is not legitimate“.
The Elisabetta Franchi case
The new episode recalls the recent episode linked to the statements of Elisabetta Franchi established entrepreneur in the fashion industry, also awarded the title of Knight of the Republic a year ago – who revealed that she does not hire young women for fear that they may have children.
Words that aroused a wave of indignation and many reactions, even ironic by the actress Luciana Littizzetto, who from the show ‘Che tempo che fa’ turned to the stylist, drawing a bitter consideration: “The ideal worker? Childless, single and orphan “.
A general reflection on the condition of women in Italy which, even in the light of this new episode, turns out to be anything but easy: “You say that being a daughter takes time and head away and a manager needs time and head to devote at work. But the husband and the partner no? Men can have eighteen wives, thirty families, friends of soccer, those of the golf club, those of bridge, indeed, the more social they have, the more career they make, while women must be cloistered nuns? Logically, the ideal worker should be childless, single, but then, after the Anta family, the problem of elderly parents takes over. And what do we want to do, gas them? “.
“Therefore, the ideal worker should have the following curriculum – Luciana Littizzetto’s conclusion -: Anta woman, single, orphan, without daughters, without friends, no near and distant relatives, no dogs, no cats, no pleasures, only sadness, available h 24…. Is this the managerial class they want? “.
Conquests and defeats
“It is useless for the Council to tell us that we can also give the son the mother’s surname, but if we don’t have children, who the fuck do we give them to all these surnames? – stresses the actress again -. We are in a country that no longer has children because we are not given the opportunity to have them. But it is not just a problem of entrepreneurs. It is a state problem that does not support with adequate social structures. Only one in three families access the nursery, which costs 300 euros public, private from 500 to 700. And if the grandparents are present … we are all happier, but if they go for other bad habits … then that’s what they are …. “.
Female occupation, never so bad
In Italy, less than one in two women works. For the first time since 2013as reported by the Gender balance 2021, female employment in 2020, the year of the outbreak of the pandemic from Covid-19dropped to 49% (in Europe 62.7% of women are employed). Not only. There distance of the female employment rate from the male one has come to touch i 18.2 percentage pointsagainst the “only” 10.1 points of the European average.
The data and numbers coming from the 2021 Gender Report, edited by the State General Accounting Department, are alarming to say the least. The pandemic crisis has significantly increased the gender differences to the detriment of women. “Compared to previous crises – he commented Maria Cecilia GuerraUndersecretary for the Economy who will bring the 2021 Gender Budget to Parliament in the coming days – the impact of that pandemic has been particularly negative on women “.
‘female employment at 49% in 2020 is the worst figure since 2013. As can be seen from the graph alongside, the percentages increased from 46.5% in 2013 to 50.1% in 2019, the year before the outbreak of the pandemic. Then, the collapse of more than one percentage point.
The female employment rate then drops further between young women (33.5%) and women who live in Southern Italy (32.5%). And also, it is reported that the rate of women Neet – that is, all young women who do not study, do not work and do not follow training courses – grew by 27.9% al 29,3%, against an EU average of 18%. Finally, the number of women forced to do so also marks a sharp increase involuntary part-time work (i.e. all those who are satisfied with a part-time job even if looking for a full-time job): from 60.8% in 2019 we have passed to 61,2% in 2020. In Europe this rate is 21.6%, about three times lower.