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[quote=Anonymous]I lived there for 7 years from the time my kids were 2 & 4 and is actually a really great place to raise children. My kids attended the local private asilo (preschool) and it cost €184 per month for 8am to 4pm with a home cooked hot lunch. The local public one was only the cost of lunch. You can get before and after care at a select number. Most Italian families will have grandparents that pickup the kids at 4 each day so parents can work. Schooling is very rigorous and in upper grades there is a lot of emphasis on order and behavior which I can see favoring girls.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Italy is still a misogynistic country, and very few women have high level jobs.

https://www.thelocal.it/20181212/why-are-there-so-few-women-in-italys-most-powerful-jobs/

Even if the girls get better grades in school, it's not translating to more higher paying jobs.  [/quote]

This sounds like the response when people point out that boys have higher dropout rates, lower college admission and graduation rates, etc.  "Since the president is a man, since more board members and law/medicine partners are men, who cares?"

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? Read the dam$ article.  Italy has a female workforce problem.

Here's another: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/05/italys-problem-with-working-women-made-worse-by-coronavirus-349561

And I say this as a mom of a boy and girl.[/quote]

I have family in Italy.  They don't have a female workforce problem.  They have a job problem, as in there aren't very many jobs at all.

But either way, giving boys lower grades for the same competency hurts boys but doesn't help girls.  So it's not a solution for any problem.[/quote]
there aren't many jobs, but the culture there doesn't value women in the workforce. It's a really misogynistic culture. Don't get me wrong.. I love Italy. I honeymooned there, but I would not want to live there as a mother.[/quote][/quote]

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