  The COVID-19 pandemic has created a sudden need for a wider uptake of
home-based telework as means of sustaining the production. Generally,
teleworking arrangements impacts directly worker's efficiency and motivation.
The direction of this impact, however, depends on the balance between positive
effects of teleworking (e.g. increased flexibility and autonomy) and its
downsides (e.g. blurring boundaries between private and work life). Moreover,
these effects of teleworking can be amplified in case of vulnerable groups of
workers, such as women. The first step in understanding the implications of
teleworking on women is to have timely information on the extent of teleworking
by age and gender. In the absence of timely official statistics, in this paper
we propose a method for nowcasting the teleworking trends by age and gender for
20 Italian regions using mobile network operators (MNO) data. The method is
developed and validated using MNO data together with the Italian quarterly
Labour Force Survey. Our results confirm that the MNO data have the potential
to be used as a tool for monitoring gender and age differences in teleworking
patterns. This tool becomes even more important today as it could support the
adequate gender mainstreaming in the ``Next Generation EU'' recovery plan and
help to manage related social impacts of COVID-19 through policymaking.
