This is true,Italy there has never been a woman president of the republic. But the President of the Council and the Leader of the Opposition, the President of the Court of Cassation and the President of the Constitutional Court are women, not to mention the woman who heads the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Council of Lawyers. In 2023, you can clearly see that the button rooms are mostly occupied by female figures. However, when the glass ceiling is broken, one must not forget who holds the foundation: girls and women, like many others, still suffer from deeply disabling gender stereotypes. “Italy is not a country for us” is not only a common thought among many young people, but also the title of the studydefenseless observatory Terre Des Hommes, according to which 53.96% of those surveyed (more than 2,000 teenage girls aged 14 to 26) feel conditioned by male clichés and heritage. at home and especially at work.
“They didn’t see us coming,” to quote Ellie Schlein’s now-famous quip, “or do they not want to see us? That is the question. Not only do respondents say they feel limited by male logic, but they also cannot count on support networks and educational models to inspire them. For 20% of them “there is no reference model”, and for 30% their mother is the main model. This means that every third girl does not have the opportunity to plan her future outside the family. and more or less unconscious prejudices about certain occupations and professions often persist at home.
“We must work to ensure that parents and teachers encourage girls to follow learning paths that allow careers close to their true desires, except for external conditions that come even from textbooks, in which men are still too often portrayed as scientists and engineers, and women are women. teachers and nurses,” explains Paolo Ferrara, general manager of Terre des Hommes, to Repubblica newspaper. “Each year, as part of our indifesa campaign, we commit ourselves to spreading the word about violence and discrimination, but we also try to offer courses for girls and boys that can raise their awareness of these issues. questions and propose new models to truly be leaders of change for a more just and inclusive society.”
As reported by Dossier Indifesa 2022, the situation with the so-called NEETs is dramatic (Not in the field of education, work or training – no education, no work and no vocational training), for which Italy holds the negative European record: Italian women between the ages of 15 and 29 who do not study or work make up 25%. The gender gap is also evident in STEM degree courses, where only 21% are female despite 60% of graduates being female. Disappointing results are also obtained with regard to financial education, which remains unexplored for 15-year-old female students. In fact, many of them have no idea how to manage a checking account, how to calculate the interest rate on a loan, or understand financial investments. If in Europe the difference in literacy is 2 percentage points, then in Italy it rises to 15 points. Hence the need for Human lands promote financial education courses for vulnerable women through collaboration with Global Thinking Foundation.
The pandemic has slowed down and, in some cases, has lost progress. According to the Observatory, 47.78% of young girls claim to have witnessed physical abuse, and 7 out of 10 girls claim to have witnessed episodes of psychological abuse. However, there is growing awareness of the mental health problem and the dangers to which young men and women are exposed. 23.14% (23.14%) see the risk of loneliness and social isolation, and 19.72% see the danger of psychological violence (19.72%). Bullying (17.90%) and sexual violence (17.39%) are among the biggest dangers, and for 82.90% the Internet is not a healthy and safe environment. And almost 34% of those surveyed see no progress in gender equality. There is no single solution, but it is important that families and schools work together to promote positive educational models. To this end, in 2020 Land of the people AND Junior Achievement Italy they launched #IoGiocoAllaPari – The Gym of Rights and Skills, a generational empowerment and gender equality pathway aimed at secondary school girls and boys to combine knowledge of rights with skills through workshops and meetings with experts. It has now been proven that gender bias is learned by children from the age of 5: the sooner we act, the better we fight for gender equality.
Source: Elle