"it is necessary to bring the leave, mandatory paternity within the first month of the life of the child up to fifteen days". He said the president dell'Inps, Tito Boeri, speaking this morning at the event Elle Active in Milan. "In the first six months of the 2016, when it was introduced on the second day of the paternity leave, we had the same numbers of all the 2015," said Boeri, saying that he is in agreement with the proposal of paternity leave mandatory would lead Italy to the levels of other countries. Such as Denmark, "where the salary increases – it has explained t he president of the Inps. While working in italy, with a son, is penalized in the salary of 15% in the media. And the data of employment come down from the 65% to 50% for those who have a son, and to 30% for women who have more than one".
These data show that women with children are perceived as a cost. For the Boers if the proposal passed it "would reduce the asymmetries" of the genre because "the criminalisation of women is not inevitable". But there is a cultural battle to face, as: "it is still a widespread perception – noted Boeri – that mothers who work are bad mothers, but it is not so. The result: just 4 fathers to 100 take leave optional". And so it is created and nourished a "vicious circle" that is a burden all on the woman, while "the bargaining power remains with men."
The solution to break this state of things is "working on incentives – said the president of the Inps -but in Italy the incentives are not enough. Serve shock that are capable of breaking a consolidated balance. Then hopefully they become a mechanism". To support the proposal, Boeri is back on the studies conducted in countries where it has been introduced paternity leave mandatory, which "demonstrated how the presence of the father aid the cognitive development of children and improves the relationship." For this, says Boeri, "when you talk to these proposals, we must not only think of the work of women but also to the welfare of the children."
Giuliano Poletti, the minister of Welfare, is to know in the margin of the Leopolda that the proposal of Tito Boeri "will of course be taken into account: but we have to see the sustainability of the costs". Adding that "there is a proposal in the Parliament". The reference is to the amendment tabled by mep Pd Titti Di Salvo, vice-president of the commission of control over the security institutions, the first signatory of a proposal on the law for measures to support the sharing of parental responsibility." The member has made to know that this is a first step down a path of "gradual towards the 15 days. That begins with an amendment to the budget law to bring paternity leave to 5 days, and by estimating the coverage to 50 million.
