La difficile conciliazione vita-lavoro in Italia: la via del remote working

The essay examines the policies of work/family life balance, contextualizing them in the framework of industrial developments and the main legislative provisions in Italy. The legislative production on the protection of maternity, the workplace and parental leave for both parents is analyzed based on woman’s needs to emancipate herself from the traditional role of mother and family carer. Despite the fact that today women work more and more often outside the familiar context, there is a lack of parallel progress, in the social formations, able to concretely legitimize the path undertaken by the female gender. In addition, the author emphasizes that in spite of the appreciable interventions to facilitate the reconciliation of family and work, us-ing flexibility as a way of performing work, in too many cases these plans have not been accompanied by complete implementation. It is only thanks to information technology and remote work (that became necessary because of the pandemic of SARS-Cov-2) that the plans experienced an acceleration. Thus, although any reliable evaluation of the model considered is still premature, the present article does not fail to consider the strengths and weak-nesses of the new socio-normative framework