Oil Production Vs. Consumption
Oil Production: 152,720 bbl/day (2011 est.)
Oil Consumption: 1.591 million bbl/day (2010 est.)
I learned that Italy hardly produces any oil, but consumes a lot. They consume almost 10 times as much oil as they produce. This means that Italy doesn't have much oil and is probably very densely populated with a lot of cars needing oil.
My questions for the country are:
Where do they get their oil from?
Why do they use so much oil when they can't produce anywhere close to that much oil?
Oil Consumption: 1.591 million bbl/day (2010 est.)
I learned that Italy hardly produces any oil, but consumes a lot. They consume almost 10 times as much oil as they produce. This means that Italy doesn't have much oil and is probably very densely populated with a lot of cars needing oil.
My questions for the country are:
Where do they get their oil from?
Why do they use so much oil when they can't produce anywhere close to that much oil?
Role of Women In Italy
Women around the world even today are still being treated unequally to men, in fact, even in our day and age, women have not achieved equality with men in any country. Here are some chilling statistics reported by un.org, the website of the United Nations about women in the world right now: About 1.3 billion people in the world are poor and 70% of that 1.3 billion are women, the majority of women earn on average about three-fourths of the pay of males for the same work outside of the agricultural sector in both developed and developing countries, ad worldwide 20 to 50 per cent of women experience some degree of domestic violence during marriage.
Italy is not perfect with how they treat women, however they are getting better. More women in Italy graduate high school and with better grades than men. There are also more women in their high schools than men. This didn’t used to be the case though, in 1950 only 7 percent of girls between the ages of fourteen and seventeen went to school, but at the same time 12 percent of boys did. In 1998-99 84 percent of the girls and 81 percent of the boys attended high schools. However, by the late 1990s, woman outnumbered men at the universities, proving that they didn’t want to just be “housewives” anymore. They wanted equal opportunity and to be able to follow their own dreams career-wise. The increased level of education of Italian women helps to explain the greater presence of women in the labor market. However, Italian women in the labor market are still well below the levels of other European and American countries (in 1999, 35.3% of Italian women aged fifteen and older were employed outside the home). The numbers are slowly creeping higher as women in Italy are finding their voice and their rights to be able to have their own jobs and speak their minds.
In Italian homes however, the typical gender role is still very much enforced: the women help with the children, housework, and cooking while the men go make the money. Italy is a very traditional country and thus, this gender stereotype is still pushing some woman out of following their dreams. This causes the number of woman in the labor force in Italy to only slowly move towards a good number. “The rigidity of the Italian labor market makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for mothers with young children to re-enter the job market, even after only a few years out. These mothers are not attractive to employers, who prefer men or childless women. Furthermore, part-time jobs are not common, and families have serious difficulties in living on only one salary. Therefore, the reproductive strategies of Italian families have changed, drastically reducing the number of children. This is compounded by the limited participation of the husband in childrearing and housework. Typically, a woman waits to get a good job, and after which it becomes very complicated to have more than one child without giving up the job”. Employers in Italy are still very biased in whom they decide hire for their jobs.
While Italy is slowly getting better at removing their traditional blinders and letting woman be equal to men, they are not their yet. They are doing better than many countries, with many woman working and getting an education, however there is still the constant pressure that remains in most of the world that women are strictly for housework and raising the kids. I think that if we keep raising awareness to the problem and that woman are just as capable as men we can overcome this bias all over the world.
Works Cited
"Italy- Education And Gender Roles." Jrank. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2013. <http://family.jrank.org/pages/979/Italy-Education-Gender-Roles.html>.
"Women At A Glance." United Nations. UN Department of Public Information, May 1997. Web. 11 Mar. 2013. <http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/women96.htm>.
Italy is not perfect with how they treat women, however they are getting better. More women in Italy graduate high school and with better grades than men. There are also more women in their high schools than men. This didn’t used to be the case though, in 1950 only 7 percent of girls between the ages of fourteen and seventeen went to school, but at the same time 12 percent of boys did. In 1998-99 84 percent of the girls and 81 percent of the boys attended high schools. However, by the late 1990s, woman outnumbered men at the universities, proving that they didn’t want to just be “housewives” anymore. They wanted equal opportunity and to be able to follow their own dreams career-wise. The increased level of education of Italian women helps to explain the greater presence of women in the labor market. However, Italian women in the labor market are still well below the levels of other European and American countries (in 1999, 35.3% of Italian women aged fifteen and older were employed outside the home). The numbers are slowly creeping higher as women in Italy are finding their voice and their rights to be able to have their own jobs and speak their minds.
In Italian homes however, the typical gender role is still very much enforced: the women help with the children, housework, and cooking while the men go make the money. Italy is a very traditional country and thus, this gender stereotype is still pushing some woman out of following their dreams. This causes the number of woman in the labor force in Italy to only slowly move towards a good number. “The rigidity of the Italian labor market makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for mothers with young children to re-enter the job market, even after only a few years out. These mothers are not attractive to employers, who prefer men or childless women. Furthermore, part-time jobs are not common, and families have serious difficulties in living on only one salary. Therefore, the reproductive strategies of Italian families have changed, drastically reducing the number of children. This is compounded by the limited participation of the husband in childrearing and housework. Typically, a woman waits to get a good job, and after which it becomes very complicated to have more than one child without giving up the job”. Employers in Italy are still very biased in whom they decide hire for their jobs.
While Italy is slowly getting better at removing their traditional blinders and letting woman be equal to men, they are not their yet. They are doing better than many countries, with many woman working and getting an education, however there is still the constant pressure that remains in most of the world that women are strictly for housework and raising the kids. I think that if we keep raising awareness to the problem and that woman are just as capable as men we can overcome this bias all over the world.
Works Cited
"Italy- Education And Gender Roles." Jrank. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2013. <http://family.jrank.org/pages/979/Italy-Education-Gender-Roles.html>.
"Women At A Glance." United Nations. UN Department of Public Information, May 1997. Web. 11 Mar. 2013. <http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/women96.htm>.