(Finance) – Definitely worrying news for Italy from Global Gender Gap Report drawn up every year by the World Economic Forum from which it emerges that our country occupies the 79th position in the ranking of the countries that compiled it: “a very negative fact, worse than last year, when we were in 63rd, today we are between Uganda and Mongolia”. He said it Naila Pratelli Program Manager Learning & Development, Value D.
In particular – explains Pratelli – “we are in the 104th position with regards to economic participation, an aspect closely linked to Gender Pay Gap. This means we have a Gender Pay Gap. of over 15% in the private sector and we are talking about a gender pay gap unadjusted which is aimed only at the salary difference between men and women, but if we also consider the difference in the type of contract, part time or full time, we go beyond the 20%.
To date it is estimated that there it will take about 131 years to achieve gender equality in the world, we have a long way to go because we consider that this is linked to cultural factors such as, for example, parenthood which unfortunately still represents a stumbling block in the lives of women who, among other things, deal with care work , over 70%6 hours a day compared to 2 for menthis positions us much closer to Eastern European countries rather than to other geographically closer countries, like France or Germany.”
“Finally, concludes Pratelli – we also have a very low percentage of STEM graduates, despite the data demonstrating that women graduate in less time and with higher grades than their male colleagues, however, when they enter the world of work the number of women it drops to 40%, to drop further to 30% in management positions and collapse to just over 20% if we talk about female managers”.