The ISMU Foundation published a factsheet on the inclusion of and discrimination against migrant women in the labour market. 

The factsheet, published in March, presents Fondazione ISMU's elaborations on Eurostat data for 2022, presented in the foundation's 2023 Migration Report, concerning Italian labour market participation and unemployment by citizenship and gender. The data show that women have a higher rate of unemployment than men, especially those with non-Italian citizenship. Looking at the data in relation to the activity rate, it emerges that the percentage of women with non-EU citizenship who do not participate in the labour market is particularly high.

According to the figures presented, the highest rate of unemployment is recorded among women from Egypt (56%; 5.9% for men from Egypt). Further, a critical 84% of women from Egypt in Italy were found to be inactive in the labour market, compared with 12.3% of their male counterparts. The highest inactivity rate in 2022 was observed among Pakistani women, at 90.2 %, followed by Bangladeshi women at 87.3%.

ISMU finds that discrimination against women in the labour market could be increased by the use of AI systems in recruitment. For this reason, the foundation suggests that it is of the utmost importance that the operators of these services are trained to reflect upon and question the stereotypes they themselves hold, and at the same time that developers and IT teams receive sensitivity training to analyse and verify the recruitment information used to train AI systems. This is the aim of the EU-funded Gender and Race Stereotypes Eradication in labour market access (GRASE) project.