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Equal or unequal?
Following the Rome congress on the gender-oriented budget, the province of Ravenna presents its own social budget, but from a different point of view. Taking a glance at the opportunities and inequality between men and women, let us ask “equal or unequal?”.
Equal or unequal?- The year 2007 has been designated the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All. Taking into consideration this coincidence, the Province of Ravenna decided to present a kind of a gender-oriented budget, but not a proper gender-oriented one, as the budget proposed in Rome, because the corresponding spheres are too limited, but a budget that focuses on the opportunities offered to women and gender inequalities still undergone by women on the territory of Ravenna.
On Saturday, 20 October, at 9.30, at
The reading of the budget traces the life paths of the women of the Province of Ravenna: from their studies at elementary schools to universities, with particular focus on professional training; search for a job, services offered by centres for employment; types of jobs offered, employee or self-employed, and a degree of professionalism; their presence at the places of institutional decision-making of the community. In particular, it will focus on women working as employees in the Province, as a concrete example. This modelling aims to give an answer to the question: equal or unequal? Are the educational, professional and political careers of the women of the Ravenna community facilitated? Or do they face obstacles in their way?
Unequal – The answer given for the state of things in 2006 is “unequal, pretty much unequal”. Indeed, Ravenna does not seem to be a happy island in the sea of difference between men and women, the sea that overflows the whole Italy. At the Saturday Congress the issue in the debate will be to what extent the opportunities are different in different sectors. Fato Luwanga Nuru, counsellor for equality of the Province, Nadia Simoni, assessor of the education and equal opportunities, and Vittorio Martinelli, sociologist, and Sonia Masini, president of the Province of Reggio Emilia, will participate in the round table organised by journalist Manuela Dradi to broaden outlook and learn about the reality outside Ravenna and make a comparison. The causes of the disparities affecting women seem to be, first and foremost, a domestic work and care for the family: help to children and ageing parents. The works that not only clip the wings of young women, but also very often are done without any remuneration or help: neither from men nor from the job market. The objective of the Congress is to lay the foundation of the future of equal opportunities. The participation of Maria Pia Timo, the famous Wanda from the TV programme Cabaret is anticipated. She will express her own opinion on the modern world leaving women little time for romanticism.
