"March 8 represents the tortuous path of women towards that gender equality still largely unfulfilled today, especially in the workplace, despite the battles and conquests made for the affirmation of their freedom and rights, first of all that of work. It remains difficult, often impossible, to reconcile work with motherhood and family management and it is still utopian to imagine equal access to the labor market, career opportunities and equal wages. Conditions worsened over the last two years by the pandemic, which amplified gender differences by exacerbating inequalities and leading to an increase in female unemployment and difficulties in accessing the labor market, especially for immigrant women, a resource invaluable for our economy and our society ".

It is a passage from the intervention of the Regional Councilor for Labor, Alessandra Zedda, in the Regional Council, on the occasion of the celebrations of International Women's Day.

Zedda - who is also responsible for immigration - also addressed a thought to immigrant women and, in this specific historical moment, to Ukrainian women, expressing closeness to those who have left or are leaving their home and loved ones in these hours to seek refuge and human warmth elsewhere: "We must look to them with fraternal affection, favoring their inclusion at every level and working against all forms of violence and in favor of rights and freedom".

"The Region is engaged in the delicate and fundamental task of giving legs to strategic projects - financed with regional, national and European resources - useful for combating the phenomenon of gender-based violence and highlighting all those activities in which women are protagonists, such as motherhood, study, work, volunteering ", explained Zedda, defining the world of women as" the real engine of progress and development ".

(Unioneonline / lf)