The Potential of Domestic Work. Intervention Proposals

Investigating domestic work today means bringing to the attention of public decision makers – and all of us – two central pillars of our democracy: the family and the revenue authorities. Family policies, in Italy, have often been left behind, lacking a broad vision, being limited to anti-poverty measures and without structural interventions: the debate on the family has always turned out to be highly ideological and polarized. This is why we believe it is necessary to contribute research that will help – through data, evidence, and proposals – to identify new pathways. All the more so now, with the inverted demographic pyramid, the aging population, and the increasing numbers of elderly people who we need to take care of.

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