Emma Bubola, The New York Times
Published: 27 Apr 2021 12:55 PM BdST
Updated: 27 Apr 2021 12:56 PM BdST Angela Esposito, right, and her two sons Francesco Saturno, center, and Angelo at home in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14, 2021. As schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic Francesco, 13, spent his mornings helping in his grandfather s fruit shop, sleeping in or glued to his PlayStation, only twice logging on to his online class. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times)
Francesca Nardi never liked school and never thought she was particularly good at it, but with the help of teachers and classmates, she had managed to stick around until 11th grade. When the pandemic hit, though, she found herself lost in online classes, unable to understand her teacher through the tablet the school gave her. She was failing, likely to get left back, and planning to drop out.
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One of hundreds of thousands of women in Italy who lost jobs in the pandemic, Laura Taddeo has a masters degree in tourism, speaks fluent English and Spanish and some Arabic, too.
Her contract as a tour operator with a high-end Italian hotel company expired in May, just as COVID-19 travel restrictions were crippling tourism, and it wasn’t renewed. But whenever tourism does rebound, Taddeo, who cuts a confident figure, will brace for the job interview questions.
“It’s not, ‘What have you studied? What languages do you speak?’ but ‘Do you have a family? Do you intend to have children?”’ Taddeo, who is 33, said every man who has interviewed her asked her that right off the bat.
Pandemic sets back Italian women s long fight for jobs
FRANCES D EMILIO, Associated Press
March 15, 2021
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1of7Tour guide Laura Taddeo poses for a portrait in front of the Vatican, Thursday, March 4, 2021. One of hundreds of thousands of women in Italy who lost jobs in the pandemic, Taddeo has a masters degree in tourism, speaks fluent English and Spanish and some Arabic, too. Her contract as a tour operator with a high-end Italian hotel company expired in May 2020, just as COVID-19 travel restrictions were crippling tourism, and it wasn’t renewed.Alessandra Tarantino/APShow MoreShow Less
2of7Daniela Magnanti poses in front of the Santa Severa castle, Friday, March 5, 2021 where she has a part-time work at the check-in desk of a hotel that opened in the castle. Worldwide, working women paid a high price during the pandemic as many quit jobs to care for children when schools closed. But Italy s women went into the crisis already struggling for