Linda Laura Sabbadini (born 5 MayÃÂ 1956), is anÃÂ ItalianÃÂ statisticianÃÂ who is recognized for her pioneering workÃÂ on gender studies and central director of the Italian National Institute of Statistics.
Sabbadini was born 5 May 1956 in Rome, Italy.
Sabbadini has been working atÃÂ ISTATÃÂ since 1983 and has been a manager since 2000.ÃÂ She has dealt in particular with women, well-being, poverty, discrimination, migrants, the environment,ÃÂ fair sustainability,ÃÂ and volunteering.
She contributed to the ISTAT study published in 1985 which was a pioneer in the world in showing the value of women's work within the familyÃÂ and renewed the ISTAT studies in the area since 1990; in 1995 theÃÂ World Conference on WomenÃÂ in Beijing declared the importance of such statistical studies on the study of women.
Subsequently, she "created relationships such as Fair and Sustainable Well-being to have an integrated vision between economy, society and environment in the evolution of the country".
Under her direction, the set of inequality and poverty measures has been significantly expanded and enriched, allowing for in-depth analyses of the dynamics of social inequality in Italy.
From 2003 to 2009 she was a member of theÃÂ Commission of Inquiry into Social ExclusionÃÂ (CIES),<sup>[2]</sup> established by theÃÂ Ministry of Labour and Social Policies.
Between 2009 and 2010 she was a member of theÃÂ Commission for the revision of the methodology for the estimation of absolute povertyÃÂ established at ISTAT which proposed an innovative methodology also at an international level.
Under her direction, the methodological restructuring of the survey on consumption expenditure was conducted, which allowed for a significant improvement in the quality of poverty estimates, and the new methodology for estimating homelessness was developed, which also involved the associations most in contact with the homeless population.
She directed the design and implementation of the indicators of equitable and sustainable well-being for which Italy played a leading role on a global level.
Together withÃÂ Maria Teresa Salvemini, she coordinated theÃÂ CNEL-ISTAT Steering CommitteeÃÂ for the definition of progress and well-being of Italian society, which brought together representatives of civil society. Together with the President of ISTAT, she coordinated theÃÂ Scientific Commission for the measurement of Well-being.
She edited theÃÂ Reports on Equitable and Sustainable Well-beingÃÂ until 2015 and produced scientific publications on well-being at a national and international level.
She was a member of theÃÂ Friends of the Chair of the UNÃÂ on broader measures of progressÃÂ on sustainable development indicators, which included the Presidents of the National Institutes of Statistics, for the advanced role played by Italy on measures of well-being.
A pioneer of gender statistics, in 1995 she participated in theÃÂ World Conference on WomenÃÂ in Beijing, editing the volumeÃÂ Tempi DiversiÃÂ - translated into 4 languages and distributed during the same conference - focused on the organization of the life times of men and women in Italy which, for the first time, contains the measure of the amount of unpaid work.
The gender approach has always been combined with the measurement of quality of life, through the conduct of numerous surveys on all aspects of social life, collecting information on the behaviors, expectations and feelings of Italians.
Even before international recommendations existed, she directed the planning and implementation of the estimation of gender violence, including its hidden part. For this reason, she provided an important contribution within the UN group to define the guidelines for measuring violence against women at a global level.
Under her direction, measures of male fertility, sexual blackmail at work, the sacrifices and discriminations suffered by women, the difficulties encountered in the course of life, the forms of family life experimented with, the causes of the low birth rate were defined.
She has published numerous scientific articles and monographs concerning the different dimensions of social life, overcoming the 'gender blind' approach that had characterized official statistics until the 1980s.
She collaborated with theÃÂ National Equality Commission, with the Ministers for Equal Opportunities, was part of theÃÂ Inter-ministerial Commission for the support of victims of trafficking, violence and serious exploitationÃÂ of the Inter-ministerial Commission againstÃÂ genital mutilationÃÂ established at the Department for Rights and Equal Opportunities.
She was Coordinator of theÃÂ Integrated Data System Group on Violence against WomenÃÂ within the Government Task Force on Violence against Women under theÃÂ Letta Government.
She participated several times in the UNÃÂ Commission on the Status of WomenÃÂ as a member of the government delegation for the statistical function.
She has been a member of UN high-level groups on gender statistics and in particular since 2007 she has been a member of the UNÃÂ Interagency and expert group on gender statistics.
She participated in theÃÂ G7 of womenÃÂ in 2017ÃÂ Starting from girls. Women Forum on inequality and sustainable growthÃÂ and edited the statistical part of theÃÂ G7 2017ÃÂ inÃÂ Taormina. She was a columnist for the newspaper La Stampa in 2016, moving on to the newspaper la Repubblica on 27 April 2020.
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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