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Research on gender inequality uses limited and sectoral areas as a
reference. A team of scholars, academics and researchers from fourteen
different countries - Cuba, Haiti, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Ivory
Coast, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Tunisia, United States and
Venezuela - bring out instead in a synchronous and transversal way the
gender discrimination for women's experiences at work, in family, for
education. Results show that in the varied landscape of countries
considered over 50 percent believe it is still difficult to be a woman
in their own country today. Only one third of respondents believe
women's policies in their country are right and less than the majority
believe there's a possibility of having support to balance and reconcile
family and work. At the same time, the tragedy of domestic violence -
worsened in the Covid period - crosses borders and refers to that
culture of machismo that still characterizes gender inequality. Why? For
the atavistic presumption of superiority of one sex over the other so
difficult to eradicate from culture, education and stereotypes still
existing today. On the contrary, certainty is rather that "donnons le
monde aux femmes, elles en feront un paradis!" ("Give the world to
women, they will make it a paradise"), as an interviewee from Haiti
wrote.
About the author
Francesco Nicola Maria Petricone, Associate professor in Sociology, is Chair of General Sociology and Sociology of Communication at the Faculty of Social and Institutional Communication of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy. Parliamentary councilor, former magistrate, lawyer and journalist, he has been honored as Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana since 2006.
