What to do to ensure female employment in the digital and green transition
Alessandra Servidori's post
In the committee's guide to drafting national plans, countries were asked to explain in detail how the plan will ensure gender equity and equal opportunities. The transversal strategy for the implementation of measures to support the employment of women guarantees, if well planned, greater efficiency and capacity to achieve the objectives.
The commitment of Minister Bonetti on the single allowance for families is very good, but we are waiting to verify real and concrete actions because a plan that focuses above all on digital and green – which we know are markets with a very strong gender imbalance, in which women are not very present – it must be organized with measures aimed at women who are not now in the labor market, who may have entered and left with different skills but who are willing to return and acquire skills that can be spent in these sectors, together with devices aimed at increasing it hiring not only in new sectors but also in non-traditionally male sectors such as energy, agriculture, construction and transport.
Therefore, a strong political commitment is now needed for professional retraining and the implementation of gender mainsteaming, which needs a robust institutional governance: it means, for the implementation of the plan, identifying the sources of funding, especially those that can already be spent immediately such as the Fund. new skills, and that a training and evaluation structure linked to Anpal is operational and of a high level.
It means organizing fast, intensive and territorial and regional quality training courses, collecting the requests of companies and asking companies for a very close collaboration, obviously with the recognition of tax and contribution reliefs and concessions.
At the same time, an operational plan on investments in the care economy together with that on the green and digital transition, because investing in these infrastructures is important, since the care sector (which includes healthcare, schools, childcare facilities and long-term care) high female employment intensity, therefore it will allow to balance the effects of investments for a green and digital economy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/occupazione-femminile-transizione-digitale-verde/ on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:45:10 +0000.