13 January 2021

"PARITY IN THE RESTART".

Please be aware that the translation of contents, although automatic, has a cost to Feminist Post but is provided to you without any charge. Please consider making a contribution via the "Support us" page if you intend to use our translation service intensively.
The contents of this site are translated using automatic translation systems without the intervention of professional translators.
Translations are provided for the sole purpose of facilitating reading by international visitors.
Share this article

POLICY PAPER ON WOMEN, REFORM AND RECOVERY FUND

WOMEN FOR SALVATION - HALF OF IT PRESENTS MANIFESTO HIGHLIGHTS

The Council of Ministers and the executive itself are currently discussing measures to be included in the government's PNRR, investments that make the most of the Recovery fund European.

A document entitled "Women for Salvation - Half of it". which will be made public in the next few hours and officially handed over to the Government, the result of a debate between institutional personalities, associations, experts from the economic and statistical world, managers and professionals.

The aim is to obtain adequate resources to free up female employment, both through European resources and through a reorganisation of national spending, creating new social infrastructures and a real economy of care, indicating long-term measures and immediate reforms that respond to the emergency demand for services by Italian families.

Concrete ideas also on employment, training, gender stereotypes, equality bodies.

The Women for Salvation Manifesto, which is inspired by the Half of it campaign at European level, enters into the dialectic with national and European institutions. That is why we ask:

- one gender assessment ex-ante and ex-post of all measures and investments to be included in the Italian PNRR, with a directorate of experts at the MEF;

- that the Government, on the basis of the European guidelines for the implementation of the Plan, present to Parliament a governance model that identifies the responsibility for the implementation of the Plan, ensuring the 50% of the presence of women, ensuring coordination with the relevant ministries at national level and other levels of government, monitoring progress of expenditure; 

-  60% coverage of children 0-3 years old in public nurseriesa fundamental educational choice for pre-schools and investment in education, with a budget of €8 billion and implementation within 5 years

- creation territorial health and proximity assistance for elderly, disabled and dependent persons, with an additional amount of at least 4 billion euros, which is not diverted from the already planned health care; the creation of the care infrastructure is to be carried out within 5 years;

- a strong investment in the territories on advice centres and anti-violence centres;

- one cashback on care services immediate and transitional for Italian families. This cashback will be financed through the allocation of 1.2 billion per year for five years, a figure that will gradually decrease thanks to the emergence of undeclared work related to care and assistance and will be exhausted when the creation of public care and proximity services is completed. The cashback on care services should be based on the French experience of universal CESU vouchers;

- an extraordinary recruitment campaign in the public services, great employment opportunities for women and young people, opportunity to renew skills, in education, care, health, research, culture; recruitment calls ensure that staff receive specific training in digitisation and technology, to overcome any initial gaps;

- a significant strengthening of the female presence where it is most lacking, and a strong support for entrepreneurshipWomen's enterprises, with coaching and training of the owners of new women's enterprises in the first three years of activity;

- an assessment for a substantial reduction of social security contributions for self-employed women (total and partial self-employed), which is compatible with public spending needs and deficits; recognition of the right to maternity and sickness for all self-employed professional categories, whether or not they are ordained;

- the activation of policies for sharing care work and parenthoodthrough comprehensive interventions, extending paternity leave and charging INPS with the advance payment of the compulsory maternity allowance, thus solving the liquidity problem of Italian small and medium-sized enterprises, while also charging 100% of the compulsory maternity allowance to general taxation;

- that schools, in all educational sectors, are organised according to the model of the full-time throughout the country; that the number of hours of civic education in schools be increased, with a special focus on the values of equality and inclusiveness enshrined in the Italian Constitution, which help to break down bullying, violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. We call for training sessions on financial education for male and female students during the same hours;

- that the state to significantly reduce university fees for female students choosing scientific and technical subjectsWe also call for the introduction of gender quotas (50%) in university entrance tests for STEM subjects;

- active labour market policies take into account the new digital tools and favour more and more guidance and training for women also at a distanceIt offers new opportunities for employment and the acquisition of technical-scientific skills or the professionalisation of care work, skills that will be increasingly needed in the future;

- l'updating of the Equal Opportunities Code with the definition of clear parameters of respect for equal pay and equal opportunities in the workplace, with a reward mechanism for employers who respect these principles through substantial contribution and/or tax relief;

- one updating of equality bodies We also call for a feasibility study on the simplification of existing bodies, evaluating the possible creation of an independent equality body with sanctioning powers, external or internal to the Antitrust Authority;

- introduction of gender procurement for all contracts relating to the Recovery Fund, with scores that reward companies that put gender equality into practice; use of the Assigned Assets funds (€44 billion) managed by CDP with criteria that require companies receiving investments to make a commitment to gender equality in the company, with specific milestones for improving gender balance in managerial and executive positions; and elimination of the gender pay gap;

They have already joined the Women for Salvation - Half of it manifesto:

Le Contemporanee - Network for Equality - D.i.Re (Women in networks against violence) - Il Giusto Mezzo - Soroptimist International Italia - Fondazione Bellisario - Dateci voce - Fuori quota - GammaDonna - Community Donne 4.0 - EWA - Differenza Donna - Se Non Ora Quando Libere - Odiare ti costa - Tlon - Base Italia - M&M "Idee per un Paese migliore" - Fondazione CeRM - Movimenta - CGIL politiche di genere - UIL coordinamento pari opportunita

for membership: lecontemporanee@gmail.com


Much of the news published by Feminist Post you will not read elsewhere. That is why it is important to support us, even with a small contribution: Feminist Post is produced solely by the voluntary work of many people and has no funding.
If you think our work can be useful for your life, we will be grateful for even the smallest contribution.

You can give us your contribution by clicking here: Patreon - Feminist Post
You might also be interested in
12 April 2022
Towards the abolition of surrogacy: an anthology and a debate
CIAMS publishes a multi-voice book against the uterus for rent and discusses it in an open webinar. In the meantime, in Italy, which is preparing to "welcome" the Fiera dell'Utero in Affitto (in Milan on 21-22 May), two bills are already being discussed that would extend the punishability of the practice even when carried out abroad. And a popular initiative bill is on the way
While in Italy we are preparing to "welcome" the Fair of the surrogate motherhood, scheduled for 21-22 May in a place still unknown - we will know only at the last minute - and in addition to the two bills already under discussion in the Commission of Justice of the Chamber of Deputies, proposals that call for the punishment of "surrogate motherhood even if carried out abroad, is preparing a draft law of popular initiative with a collection of signatures for a definitive stop to the practice - we will soon give details - next 28 April [...]
Read now
7 November 2021
Story of a detransitioner called Carol
'I was simply a lesbian, but I didn't accept it'. Her story demonstrates the dangers of a 'gender affirmative' model of care that accepts patients' self-diagnosis of being trans, standard practice in American transgender medicine.
Carol had long suspected that her daily life in rural California would be easier if she were a man. Yet she was amazed at how true this was. As a 'butch' (masculine) woman, (and 'not very smiley') she had regularly been treated with mild contempt, she says. After a double mastectomy and a few months of testosterone - which gave her facial hair and a gravelly voice - 'people, cashiers, everyone, suddenly became so damn [...].
Read now
30 October 2021
Zan draft law: calling things by their name
El verdadero nombre del proyecto de ley de Zan, bloqueado hace unos días en el Senado, debería haber sido "Proyecto de ley sobre la autocertificación de género" y no contra la homotransfobia. Ese era el verdadero objetivo, la autoidentificación, y por eso la ley se ha estancado. Sacrificar la legítima protección de las personas homosexuales y transexuales a la arrogancia del transactivismo queer.
Un breve comentario, tras archivar el proyecto de ley Zan sobre la homobi-transfobia, destinado principalmente a las hermanas y amigas no italianas que nos piden explicaciones; y a las italianas que aún no tienen claro lo que pasó. Hace más o menos un año, el proyecto de ley de Zan contra la homobiotransfobia fue aprobado en la Cámara de Diputados en medio del silencio y la desatención general. En ese momento, los medios de comunicación ocultaron por completo el debate, [...]
Read now
30 October 2021
Zan Bill: give things their real name
The real name of Zan's bill, which was blocked a few days ago in the Senate, should have been the bill on gender self-certification and not against homotransphobia. That was the real objective, the self-id, and that is why the law has stalled. Sacrificing the rightful protection of homosexual and transsexual people to the arrogance of queer transactivism.
A brief comment, after the filing of Zan's bill on homobi-transphobia, mainly intended for the non-Italian sisters and friends who ask us to explain; and for those Italian women who are still unclear about what happened. About a year ago, Zan's bill against homobi-transphobia was approved in the Chamber of Deputies amidst general silence and inattention. At that stage, the media completely obscured the debate, while the ongoing Covid wave - in Italy the vaccination campaign had not yet begun [...].
Read now
7 July 2021
COMMUNICATION FROM THE FEMINIST NETWORK AGAINST THE ZAN DDL #NoncancelleRete
The protection of homosexual and transsexual persons is a different game from that of gender identity, which aims to reduce human sexuality to insignificance. The two levels must be kept separate. The Senate should vote in full conscience
The Zan dossier is too important to be left to the electoral tactics and personalism of politicians. At issue, with the introduction of gender identity, is a model of civilisation in which human sexuality is reduced to insignificance, an issue that concerns everyone and everyone. We indicated the possibility of returning to the Scalfarotto bill of 2018 -then relaunched by Italia Viva- because that text, born in the centre-left, guarantees the necessary protection of homosexual and transsexual persons [...]
Read now
25 June 2021
Trans Mission: why the push to change gender? The new film by Jennifer Lahl
The growing pressure of gender ideology, the colonisation of institutions in the West, the deleterious effects on girls and boys, the bewilderment of parents. A film-investigation in free streaming to investigate and contain the phenomenon.
Interview by Gary Powell with Jennifer Lahl "Bad ideas create victims. Our job at the CBC -Center for Bioethics and Culture- is to challenge and critique these kinds of unhealthy ideas before they cause harm to people". This is the uncompromising and unequivocal message of Jennifer Lahl, founder and president of the California-based CBC. With 25 years of experience as a former pediatric critical care nurse, hospital administrator and senior nursing executive, she is used to [...]
Read now