(Recasts with focus on female job losses, adds quotes, details) ROME, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Women accounted for nearly all of Italy’s job losses in December, when the country’s unemployment rate rose to 9.0% from a downwardly revised 8.8% in November, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Monday. ISTAT said some 101,000 jobs were lost in the final month of 2020, with 99,000 of them due to a fall in employment among women. Over the year as a whole, 312,000 women lost their jobs compared with 132,000 men. Economists say women in Italy tend to have less secure jobs in areas which have been pa...