Giustificati motivi per essere madre (?). Per una lettura interculturale di maternità, lavoro e appartenenza religiosa

This essay addresses the issue of motherhood in workplaces from the somewhat novel perspective of the effective enjoyment of religious freedom. The argumentative axis of the considerations proposed here is an attempt to show how the widespread and almost tangible failure of the employment law policies, variously designed to close the gender gap and mitigate the discrimination suffered by women-mothers, is due to a secularized view of society in which work, family and religious dimensions of human experience are categorized and managed separately, as if they were completely autonomous aspects of each individual’s life.