Women tend to have less secure jobs in areas which have been particularly badly hit by the corona pandemic. According to the national statistics bureau ISTAT, women accounted for nearly all job losses in December, when the country’s unemployment rate rose to 9.0% from a downwardly revised 8.8% in November. ISTAT furthermore reported that some 101,000 jobs were lost in the final month of 2020, with 99,000 of them due to a fall in employment among women.
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