Sponsored by Costa Crociere Foundation, pilot project Women in Technology (WIT) addresses 150 young female students in Campania, Calabria and Sicily to prevent the NEET phenomenon and create new job opportunities.
The two-year programme (June 2016 - May 2018) aims to promote the job insertion of young women in the working world by supporting their entrepreneurial projects in the technology sector. Why start in Campania, Calabria and Sicily?
Here are some diagrams based on three indicators that will help you understand how hard conditions are for young women in these three regions: school dropouts, young women who neither study nor work, and unemployment rate [Istat data, Noi Italia].
In Sicily, 21.7% of women drop out of school, followed in third place nationally by Campania with 17.6%. The situation is better, but only in terms of this indicator, Calabria which ranks 11th with 12.2%.
In Sicily, 38.9% of young women neither work nor study. Calabria ranks 2nd with 38.6%, followed by Campania with 36.6&.
In terms of unemployment, Calabria has the worst performance (65.1%). The first graph illustrates the growth rate with a significant show by young women
