L’Osservatore Romano | There is a type of work that continues to be unrecognized as such. It is the work of caring, of relationships, of daily organisation that ensures the survival of families and the cohesion of communities, that contributes to GDP, and that weighs disproportionately on women. It is work that is often invisible, unpaid, taken for granted, and which has a profound impact on women’s ability to work, to be independent, to make choices. Linda Laura Sabbadini, one of Italy's most authoritative scholars on the subject, and former director of ISTAT, the Italian statistical institute, and a European pioneer in gender statistics, has been saying this clearly for decades. ISTAT combines data, structural analysis and a political reading of inequalities between men and women. It is not just a question of invisible accounting, but of a choice of a development model.

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