In thirty years nothing or almost nothing has improved, what to do?
Small steps forward, but now an extra push is needed. It is needed for women who need economic autonomy, for families who need dual income, and for the country which needs more children and more GDP. To achieve this we need to work on two fronts: reforms from above and a change of mentality from below. Never alone, always with men. Work is difficult to reconcile with motherhood and for women the freedom to work does not exist: you still have to choose whether to work or have children. Women still do 70% of the domestic work for free, it will take 100 years to change anything. What to do: more paternity leave, facilitations for those who hire regular domestic help because even if sharing was perfect it would not be enough.
Precarious jobs fall more often to women (involuntary part-time, fixed-term contracts). What to do: incentives to stabilise women. For women, a career only exists at the price of enormous sacrifices, only 20% of women managers. What to do: enhance gender certification for companies, impose a new kind of leadership.
In the private sector women earn 16.5% less than men, what to do: enhance gender certification, more transparency as in the UK. Setting up one's own business for a woman is a mission impossible, what to do: spend the 400 million Pnrr well and encourage the passing on of the baton to daughters.
