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Editoriale. Innovazione e tecnologia per la
parità di genere: la strategia di Unimore

Tindara Addabbo

Editorial: The strategy adopted by Unimore for innovation and technology for gender equality

The theme chosen by the United Nations for International Women’s Rights Day is ‘DigitALL: innovation and
technology for gender equality’. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) Report 2022 proposes
a summary indicator of the different dimensions of equality. The index calculated for Italy shows how the
dimension in which we are at the bottom of the ranking in terms of gender equality in Europe is the labour
dimension and how the level of gender equality achieved in Italy is lower than the index calculated by EIGE
for the European Union. This is the case even if the level of female education is higher than that of men,
but there are gaps in the distribution of male and female students in the different subject areas. Also in our
university, the areas of study with a clear female predominance are those related to humanities and care-
related courses, while in STEM areas a clear male predominance continues to be observed. It is therefore
important to know what is happening in our university in terms of gender equality and what strategies are
adopted to promote it. In December 2022, Unimore approved the first Gender Equality Plan. Twenty actions
make it up, ranging from a commitment to gender reporting and the activation of the budget cycle within
which the Plan’s actions fit into a programme perspective. In this issue of Focus Unimore we illustrate the
various initiatives of our University on the occasion of ‘International Women’s Rights Day’.

l tema scelto dalle Nazioni Unite per la Quanto siamo distanti dall’obiettivo dell’egua-
Giornata Internazionale dei diritti glianza di genere e quale è stato l’impatto com-
della donna è “DigitALL: innova- plessivo della pandemia nelle diverse dimensioni
zione e tecnologia per la parità di delle diseguaglianze?
Igenere” e ci consente di riflettere su Una risposta a questa domanda che ci poniamo

quanto il divario di genere esistente nel lavoro di- anche in occasione della Giornata Internaziona-
gitale conduca a un aumento delle diseguaglianze le dei diritti della donna, si trova nel Rapporto
di genere economiche e sociali e, al contempo, 2022 dell’Istituto europeo per l’eguaglianza
porre attenzione alla tutela dei diritti delle donne di genere (European Institute for Gender Equality
e delle ragazze negli spazi digitali contrastando la — EIGE) che propone un indicatore sintetico delle
violenza di genere online.

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