"Today I will call Colao to communicate his intention to integrate the committee of experts that he directs through the involvement of women whose professionalism - I am sure - will be of decisive help to the country - announced Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte -. Likewise, in the next few hours I will ask the head of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, to integrate the Technical-Scientific Committee with an adequate female presence ".
"In the same way, in the next few hours I will ask the head of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, to integrate the Technical-Scientific Committee with an adequate female presence. I also invite all ministers to take account of the gender balance in training. of their respective task forces and working groups, "explains the head of government.
"With several colleagues we signed a motion on the need to intervene on the small presence of female professionals in the task forces established by the government in the context of the Coronavirus emergency. The Prime Minister Conte promptly collected this intervention - explains the vice-president of the Facebook Senate and Senator Pd, Anna Rossomando - and this is certainly a positive fact. Now we will verify the concrete facts, but in any case it will have to be a true recognition of the professionalism of women. In fact, we cannot think of facing the phase in which we are entering and the following ones without this point of view in the economic, social and cultural planning. If the quality of the recipes to face the crisis will be different from the models that we all agree must be innovated, we will also see it from this point of view " .
"We are pleased to learn that the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, has invited Vittorio Colao to an immediate gender balance in the composition of the task force and the technical-scientific committee. Thanks to the strong adhesion to the petition first and then to the virtual flashmob of May 2 then, as well as thanks to the efforts of senators and deputies and the constant battles of many feminist associations and civil society, we were finally listened to, "the #Datecivoce committee said in a statement. "Now we are asking politics and the President Conte - adds the Committee - to take a historic step: to approve a law so that in every commission, organ, technical table of institutional and public appointment there is real equality. The Gulf-Moscow law 120/2011 on gender anti-discrimination quotas it is an indispensable reference point, but representation must be increased to 50% and extended to any place where the state and institutions decide. Having fair percentages of men and women means not only changing the political vision of the country but also to restore confidence to those who believe that only in mutual respect, in respect of the Constitution and in the richness of difference can a better country be born ", concludes the note.
"After the 'Give us Voice' mobilization last Saturday and the motion presented in the Senate, the government realizes that it has excluded women from the notorious 'task forces' in charge of managing the post-emergency phase," say Emma Bonino, leader of + Europe and Costanza Hermanin, deputy secretary of + E and member of the promoter group of #Datecivoce. "We are happy to have given our contribution as More Europe. It is a question of meritocracy: if there were in Italy, a normal statistical distribution would automatically produce a balanced representation in the collegial bodies. Well the answer of Conte - they continue - we look forward to seeing it concrete realization. If the country is so far from conceiving equality as to think of all male task forces, it means that the tools we have are insufficient. And it is not only a question of numbers, but also of choices. With more than 60% of the female health workers, including women, would perhaps have made more prudent choices in many sectors, not least - conclude Bonino and Hermanin - on school and part-time work ".
"If Premier Conte weeks ago, and I repeat weeks ago, he wanted an adequate female representation in his countless and populous consultant task force, he had only to say it, or rather order it, since he is the one who commands and decides, as he always repeats - says the League Senator, Roberto Calderoli, vice president of the Senate - waking up today after the controversies of parliamentarians and journalists on the lack of pink quotas and saying that now they will remedy, after weeks, is ridiculous and offensive to the many women excluded from these task forces. For the series when the patch is worse than the hole ... ".