We will have to wait until 2154 to have gender equality. The finish line is still far away according to UN data recalled in the webinar, moderated by Alvaro Moretti, deputy director of Il Messaggero with Alessandra Spinelli, 'Overturning stereotypes' of the MolteDonna cycle, dedicated to the changes and challenges that the female universe is facing and broadcast live from the TV studio of Il Messaggero and in streaming on the websites of all the newspapers of the Caltagirone Editore Group (ilgazzettino.it, ilmattino.it, corriereadriatico.it and cielodipuglia.it).
The great changes that have taken place and the transformations underway have been photographed, from gender policy to Gender Quality Certification, but there are still many obstacles along the way. "In 2022, according to a study carried out for the Chamber, almost 45,000 working mothers resigned. That is to say one in five, 20%, because they were unable, in 64% of cases, to reconcile work and family reality. If we look by age group, the female employment data, in the typical age of motherhood, we have worrying percentages. Between 25 and 34 years we are last in Europe, bringing up the rear" underlined Laura Cavatorta, member of the boards of directors of Inwit, Unieuro and Snam, spoke with Anita Falcetta, Founder of Women of Change Italia in the Women at Work Panel.
"We should have - he continued - nurseries not for 4 hours, but for working hours. A parental leave that is not so penalizing, paid at 30%". The problem, it was noted, is not "motherhood, but parenthood", but "how many men manage to overcome the cultural barrier? "We created - Falcetta said - a provocative international campaign that said 'pay women less than men it means robbing them every day.' We have a gap of around 8 thousand euros per year calculated from the latest INPS data. The issue of equal opportunities should move from the so-called S for social to G for Governance".
Cavatorta put his finger on the wound by pointing out that "at the end of working life, at the end of the accumulation of all the various discriminations, according to INPS data from 2021 or 2022, the pension gap between men and women is 38%. A scary number. And the raw figure is above 43%. Crude means: I take all the men's salaries and all the women's salaries, I do the averages and here's the difference. It doesn't mean that women are paid 43% less, but that throughout their lives the famous equal opportunities did not exist. The work to be done is therefore on equal opportunities which remains the biggest problem."
With Bianca De Teffè Erb, Director Data & Al Ethics Leader Deloitte and Tiziana Catarci, director of the 'A.Ruberti' Department of Computer, Automatic and Management Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, in the 'Women in data science' panel, we then talked about technology, ethics and the opportunities that AI can offer to eliminate gender differences. "We have reached the goal that the system speaks the language of the human being. This has enormous risks in the absence of awareness" underlined Catarci and launched an appeal that summarizes all those made during the webinar: "The new world is based on digital and we would like it to be better. It cannot be left to men to be the only protagonists of digital." To close, after the Women on stage panel with the actresses Ludovica Martino and Sara Drago, Monica Lucarelli, Councilor for Security Policies, Productive Activities and Equal Opportunities of the Municipality of Rome.
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