Date: 2012
Nationality: italian
Description: Does gender-based discrimination exist and persist in the workplace? Would you ask a man, a worker, a professional at the time of hiring in the company if he plans to have children? No. He wouldn’t get asked because the care of children, as well as the care of the home, of people with disabilities, of the elderly, is still the exclusive task of women.
Women create problems – says Margherita in her testimony to the Lunàdigas Live Archive – “because if a child gets sick they have to stay at home” and companies “want you all for themselves”.
Companies do not invest in women’s skills, “women are not sent forward because they are valuable”, they are chosen according to criteria that ensure that they do not jeopardise profits with absences for pregnancy and care work. “A stupid thing – continues Margherita – because that can be a valuable person, if she stays at home one day… it’s not the end of the world.”