Growing job resignations: in 2010 they were 19.017, up from 17.676 the previous year. The push: the birth of a child and the impossibility of having someone to entrust him with or adequate affordable services. The phenomenon is confirmed by the minister of labour, Elsa Fornero. Spontaneous, voluntary resignations, which strike above all women, between 26 and 35 years of age. Female workers - explains the minister, answering a question - leave work already with their first child: a fact "symptomatic of the difficulty of reconciling working hours with times to care for the offspring", acknowledges the minister.
The most frequent reasons for resignation concern lshortage and high costs of early childhood care services. In fact, it emerges that 4.620 female workers resigned due to failure to accept the child in nursery school, as many (4.394) due to the absence of supportive relatives, while 2005 female workers resigned as they were unable to face the high costs of childcare services. There are, of course, personal reasons: the desire to take care of the offspring, reunification with the spouse and more.
Most interested in the phenomenon of resignation in case of maternity are companies with up to 15 employees: "Probably - notes Fornero - in these companies it is more difficult to implement forms of flexible work". Indeed, it is not by chance as many as 1.594 workers interviewed complained that part-time work was not granted. The productive sectors most affected are those of commerce and industry which employ female labour.
