Resignation, no longer just mothers: over 18 thousand dads have left their jobs to raise their children

After the mothers, now the dads arranged (or forced) increase to leave the job to be able to raise their children. The phenomenon of resignation of the working parents remains a rebus never resolved in Italy and to demonstrate it are The latest 2023-2024 data of the Labor Inspectorate. An investigation that highlights how 61 thousand workers who resigned in the two years, for 70% are mothers and for almost 30% of fathers (more than 18 thousand). A sign of how much work and family are spheres of life still difficult to reconcile in Italy.

The gender differences and difficulties of the parents

The reports of the report are merciless. Analyzing the phenomenon of validation of the resignation 2023, the most relevant age class is in fact that between 34 and 44 years old. The most affected are the parents with a child, followed by the parents with two children and finally by parents with more than two children. The theme of motivations, however, presents important gender differences: the majority of Madri workers connected the difficulty in reconciling the absence of services (45.2% in 2023, 47.5% in 2024). Overall, the difficulty of care represents in 2023 74.7% of validation, a value that passed to 77.5% in 2024. For the workers Fathers instead the main motivation of withdrawal is of a professional nature, or for passage to another company (66.6% in 2024) while the care of the children is in second place and is mentioned in 21.1% of cases for 2024. The share was 16.7% in 2023.

The report reads: « In the two reference years of reference, the fact that remains constant is the prevalence of couples with a child and the age of the child up to 1 year – limit within which, as a rule, the prohibition of dismissal applies. The concentration of validation on these types, associated with the female prevalence of validation made over the total, confirms how The most critical phase to remain in the labor market for women continues to be just within the first year from the birth of the child».

The kindergarten node: places increase but they are not enough

The services for children who cannot meet the needs of working parents are certainly engraved on resignation. A gap that is evident by reading the new report of the Ca ‘Foscari Venice University on early childhood educational services (0-3-year-old band). In the year 2022/2023, The offer units surveyed on the national territory have exceeded 14 thousand units. It is an increment of total (public and private) seats of 4.5% Compared to the previous educational year however insufficient to satisfy the question.

Almost six out of ten structures (59.5%) declare that they have children on the waiting lista figure on increase compared to the 56.3% detected in the previous year. It reads: «The difficulties in satisfying all requests are more marked in the public sector services: 68.9% declare that they have unavailable questions, a share that rises to 73.3% for the North Public Offer Units. Also in the private sector there are waiting lists, although with less frequency: 54% for private services tout court and 53.7% for those affiliated ».