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Recognizing inequalities
"Is recognizing inequality the first step towards a solution?" I'd say yes.
I don't think it's obvious, especially when things seem to be going well.
My company has always done well, apart from during COVID.
When there are no problems, you don't feel the need to look inward and see whether something's wrong.
I think when things are going well, that's actually the best time to look inside and understand what could...
...improve.It's something we're genuinely putting into practice.
It's a family-run company, but also multinational and very multicultural.
We have people with very different circumstances.Clearly, while respecting the rules that unite us, it's important to recognise the things that make us different.
That's not only a chance for mutual enrichment, but also a way to take a critical look and see if there is equality in treatment or not.
And that's exactly what we're doing.We haven't got gender equality certification yet, but we've done an internal review.
For example, I can say that at management level we currently don't have a strong female presence, and clearly this has led us to conduct internal assessments regarding workloads,family responsibilities, and so on.
It's a specific topic we've shared with our head office,and it's currently being reviewed. Because now, more than ever, as a company,we see it as essential to represent every gender,every individual, at heart, since it's a company that's both multinational and truly multicultural.
There's still plenty of work to be done here too.We'll be refining our analysis,in line with European legislation, which involves us in a series of assessments, and we're more than happy to do them,as it's a real chance to raise our standards in this area.
It's clear that Human Resources is deeply involved in this, and we'll do it with support from all the departments involved.
But yes, acknowledging it is the first step,because it could easily go unnoticed, as we said before:"Everything seems fine, so why change?" But that phase of awareness, becoming truly conscious of it,is always the first step, and in my view, the hardest one.
But it's where everything begins.
