A new project started by Bank of Italy it will include women more strongly in the scope financial education. An issue that is often mistreated or not considered, despite the fact that the world is moving towards a global market that will increasingly be dominated by the need to know manage your money to make it profitable (rather than leave it to rot on a checking account from which it will come out decimated, as we have explained in the past few days).
In partnership with Soroptimist International – the association of women involved in supporting the advancement of the condition of women in society and in the world of work – the Bank of Italy has therefore launched a plan that will consist of financial education projects designed specifically for women: a way to reduce the gender gap, which in Italy is more present than in other countries, especially in light of the changes that are taking place in society due to the combined effect of digitization and pandemic.
“Women matter”: the financial education project supported by the Bank of Italy is launched
Where does the need to start such a project arise right now?
He explains it Alessandra Perrazzelli, Deputy Director of the Bank of Italy, on the occasion of the opening of the proceedings: “I work from home, financial skills that see women being less aware of what they know, difficulties in having access to credit for self-exclusion or discrimination, gaps due to fewer skills of women in the financial sector from account management to more complex transactions. These are the difficulties that women are facing right now. For this it is necessary to implement a series of positive actions, which can transform critical issues into opportunities. Women have the ability to look at longer perspectives over time and it is necessary that at this moment they can have the tools not only financial but also digital to do so “.
In fact, she continues, there are two factors that have strongly affected the condition of women in the world of work and the economy in this period of lockdown: for many women, staying at home does not only mean working from home, but take care of its management at the same time, historically delegated to the skills of the female gender. In addition, many of the businesses that have been shut down in recent months were more female-driven, and this helped to highlight a pre-existing gap.
It is hoped that these projects will make a solid contribution to the training of women in the fields that, due to their cultural heritage, they have always been exclusive male prerogative. And that everyone collaborates in this process, to make our country more egalitarian and competitive compared to other world powers.
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