Young Women Facing The Economic Crisis

The paper present the intermediate outcomes of a reserch on the impact of the socio-economic crisis in Italy on young people.  More specifically this paper deal with gender differences and inequalities which characterize the condition of young people in Italy. Which are the expectations, the abilities and the competences to cope with  difficult economic conditions that characterize young female and male? The relevance of cultural capital will be discussed in order to understand the opportunities or the difficulties faced by young women or men. Besides some data will be presented on young male and female liviing in Italy but with foreign origins. We argue that gender, ethnic origin  and cultural capital are the three most important variables  to explain unequalities of opportunities among young peole facing the economic cirisis.