The percentage of female legal professionals is increasing in a field where, 20 years ago, just 20% were women. Yet, despite a nearly 50/50 gender split between trainees, it remains the case that only men successfully climb to the upper echelons of the profession. Barbara de Muro, the lawyer in charge of the ASLA Women project, explains why we should turn things around and how to do it
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8,000 direct employees and a total turnover of 200 million euros: the figures and best practices belonging to a phenomenon generating thousands of jobs
Italy has hit record levels when it comes to women in employment, yet they are still the lowest in Europe. There is a lack of services, especially nurseries. And there is a need for a system that divides childcare responsibilities equally between the parents
Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the creator of microcredit, reminds young people that human beings are creative, encouraging them not to work for somebody else
She’s the financial soul of the social network and also the users’ most-loved face: an exceedingly powerful manager who took her own vulnerability and turned it into a winning card
Women graduates in STEM disciplines are still few in number. Only 30% of girls are inclined toward a technological or scientific degree course. And of this 30% the overwhelming majority s more interested in medicine and chemistry.
Having children allows you to develop skills that can be reused at work. Parental skills are soft skills which are highly sought after by companies. That’s why motherhood can become like a master’s degree according to Riccarda Zezza.
According to a survey commissioned by Valore D, Italian women workers over the age of 50 are destined to play an increasingly important role in the labour market. And it would seem that companies are starting to cotton on
The computer giant’s new CEO on the themes of work-life balance and training for young people seeking to enter the labour market.
The Scientific Director of the PTP Science Park in Lodi is one of the few women at the helm of an Italian scientific organization: We’re equals when we are at university, and then the men go into management and the women become teachers. Who is to blame? Those who don’t know how to explain to girls that science is within their skills and creativity.
After twenty years and four reforms, we are still one of the world’s more rigid labour markets: a consequence of reforms that concerned only part of the workforce. One of the many (too many) things that we lack to be (at least) on a European level
In Italy, the situation has improved mainly in larger companies. Small and medium-sized companies are a bit slower. An interview with the President of Valore D, Sandra Mori
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.