Italy
Women's rights checklist
- Constitution refers to gender equality or non-discrimination
- CEDAW ratified without reservations
- Equal rights to pass nationality to child
- Domestic violence legislation exists (standalone)
- Rape is criminalised (except marital rape)
- Marital rape is criminalised
- Law does not allow mitigating circumstances for femicide
- Law does not include exoneration if offender marries his victim
- Abortion is legal or not criminalised in the case of rape
- Sexual harassment is criminalised
- Adultery is not criminalised
- Laws on FGM/C (if known to be practiced)
- Sex work is not criminalised
- Minimum age of marriage at 18 (with no exception for marriage below 16)
- No requirement for male marriage guardian for adult women
- Polygamy is prohibited
- Equal rights in marriage and divorce
- Equal rights to guardianship of children
- Equal rights to custody of children
- Equal rights to inheritance
- Women have the right to equal pay for the same work as men
- Women have the right to equal pay for work of equal value
- Unlawful to dismiss worker based on her pregnancy or taking maternity leave
