Salt: "If a man says that women’s quotas are useless, I am perplexed"

The data of World Economic Forum they report that the female employment rate it is 20% lower than the male one. And one more difference of salary 17% between both sexes. Statistics which alone would be enough to understand the question of gender equality. But, in addition to the data, there is perceptions, stereotypes e prejudices which hinder full equality between women and men. These are the themes at the center of the event “Gender equality in business“, which took place yesterday at Castromediano museum in Leccein which they participated among others Silvia Salismayor of Genovae Antonio Decaropresident of Puglia region. To moderate the work, Rita Lofanodirector ofAGI.

“When I hear a man say that… quote rosa they are useless I’m perplexed. When women say it, it gives me goosebumps”, said the first citizen of the Ligurian capital, then referring to her previous experience in sports management. “If the gender quotas the managers would be zero. But – he asked later – who can be the president of a sports club? Who can dedicate their free time to other people’s children? Men”. Returning to the data, Salis refers to the “3.3 million inactive of working age for family reasons in Italy. They don’t look for a job because they have something else to do”, for example “take care of the family. Of these 3.1 million are women. When there is a theme of treatment within the family – he explained – it is always the woman who doesn’t work or stops doing so”.

The employment gap in Puglia

A reasoning echoed by the Apulian president: “If we look at the data of our Region we realize that up 1.3 million employedjust over 400.000 they are women. Let’s talk about a very high gapmore than double”. In the next step Decaro he recalled that “We are about to celebrate 80 years of women’s right to vote in Italy. An extraordinary possibility which – he underlined – was not a concession. That was a form of resistence by the women who have earned that right.”