Exactly a century ago, the workers of the American textile industry, on strike to denounce their terrible working conditions in the factory were closed by the owner to prevent external manifestations. A fire broke out and women were imprisoned by the flames. 129 workers died in the fire. From that dramatic episode, with the spread of initiatives that saw women as protagonists in the claims, on 8 March assumed a global importance as an international day of struggle for women, but above the day is the point of departure of their redemption.
Since then, the journey towards gender equality has increasingly been the focus of debate social, political and institutional, where he reached the knowledge that promote equal opportunities is primarily a civic duty and moral. Supporting the rights of women does not mean to act on an issue or a particular state - the female specificity , but concerns a central aspect of democracy, opposed to any form of discrimination.
E 'as well known in our society, women still struggle to succeed in high public positions (political and institutional) and suffer from a type of pay discrimination - particularly in the private sector - than their male colleagues.
Maurizio Ferrera, in an article published a few months ago in the Corriere della Sera, on the debate "Overtaking on the English," he pointed out that the female employment rate in Spain, the Italian passed by about 7 percentage points. In this photograph you add up the findings from research conducted by the Centre on the change of government at SDA Bocconi, where it is clear, a lack of women among senior management positions in the sector of Public Administration.
In a moment of heated debate on the promotion of women's participation in political, economic and institutional, it is clear, therefore, the need for a change of course in the public sector.
The Minister for Equal Opportunities, Barbara Pollastrini, has issued, in May 2007, a Directive to implement equal rights and opportunities between men and women, paying part of the measure to its management. The aim is to encourage the rebalancing of women in the activities and hierarchical positions where there is a gap between genres, as well as raise public awareness and even the heads of the institutions. Ben
are therefore this type of work while still in contemporary society, cultural prejudices, probably caused by a kind of "feeling obscure men" as it was understood by the philosopher John Stuart Mill, and still block the participation of women in the strategic areas society.
Mill argued that there is a sort of general fear on the part of men, the fact that women in public life would have altered the relationships in the private sphere and therefore, in exercise of the traditional role of women within the family.
women, during this journey that began 100 years ago, but have proven to be able to play simultaneously with efficiency, professionalism, passion and love both. A female specificity, then, that should not be understood as synonymous with inferiority, as has often happened in history since the days of Aristotle, but as a positive feature of which only women are carriers and for which we must all commit ourselves to promote and enhance.
Cristina Sanna
Since then, the journey towards gender equality has increasingly been the focus of debate social, political and institutional, where he reached the knowledge that promote equal opportunities is primarily a civic duty and moral. Supporting the rights of women does not mean to act on an issue or a particular state - the female specificity , but concerns a central aspect of democracy, opposed to any form of discrimination.
E 'as well known in our society, women still struggle to succeed in high public positions (political and institutional) and suffer from a type of pay discrimination - particularly in the private sector - than their male colleagues.
Maurizio Ferrera, in an article published a few months ago in the Corriere della Sera, on the debate "Overtaking on the English," he pointed out that the female employment rate in Spain, the Italian passed by about 7 percentage points. In this photograph you add up the findings from research conducted by the Centre on the change of government at SDA Bocconi, where it is clear, a lack of women among senior management positions in the sector of Public Administration.
In a moment of heated debate on the promotion of women's participation in political, economic and institutional, it is clear, therefore, the need for a change of course in the public sector.
The Minister for Equal Opportunities, Barbara Pollastrini, has issued, in May 2007, a Directive to implement equal rights and opportunities between men and women, paying part of the measure to its management. The aim is to encourage the rebalancing of women in the activities and hierarchical positions where there is a gap between genres, as well as raise public awareness and even the heads of the institutions. Ben
are therefore this type of work while still in contemporary society, cultural prejudices, probably caused by a kind of "feeling obscure men" as it was understood by the philosopher John Stuart Mill, and still block the participation of women in the strategic areas society.
Mill argued that there is a sort of general fear on the part of men, the fact that women in public life would have altered the relationships in the private sphere and therefore, in exercise of the traditional role of women within the family.
women, during this journey that began 100 years ago, but have proven to be able to play simultaneously with efficiency, professionalism, passion and love both. A female specificity, then, that should not be understood as synonymous with inferiority, as has often happened in history since the days of Aristotle, but as a positive feature of which only women are carriers and for which we must all commit ourselves to promote and enhance.
Cristina Sanna
