“Lhe key phrase is one: take welfare off women’s shoulders. Point. Share it with the men.” This is how Antonella Parigi, president of the association, explains what a city for women should be like (Turin City for Women) who organizes the festival Women and The Cityongoing until 15 October in Turin, on gender equality in local policies, urban planning and society in general.
Gender equality, how to build a city for women?
An opportunity to stimulate reflection on gender perspectives and equality in local policies, to make city spaces and practices accessible, inclusive and fair. From the environment to leadership, from innovation to gender medicine, passing through the physical city and mobility, culture, sport, gender violence. These are just some of the hot topics, in this sense.
«Many good practices are being implemented in the private sector. Thanks also to evaluation of the sustainability balance sheetseveral companies, such as Feltrinelli e Lavazza, have activated good practices for gender equality”, explains Parigi. (We remind you that the sustainability report is the communication tool for environmental and social performance and serves to determine the credit given to them).
«The problem is the public: here the problem is more complex. But the answer is trivial: services are missing» says Paris.
Antonella Parigi, president of the association (Turin City for Women) which organizes the Women and The City festival, running until 15 October in Turin. She is former Councilor for Culture and Tourism of the Piedmont Region, and founder of the Holden School.
The good practices of foreign cities
Last year, Torino Città Per le Donne led a research, financed by Compagnia di San Paolo, which highlighted the initiatives of large international cities – Vienna, Barcelona, Basque Country Umeå and Montréal – for gender equalityAnd. «We have found that the determining factor, in addition to political will, is always the dialogue between the world of associations and the institutional one».
Women and The City was also created with the aim of “building a system”, first and foremost among other associations.
From STEM to city places: where are women still excluded?
Among the events proposed at Women and The City, Goose! The Game of the Goose – Steam Educationor the women’s game of goose in science: a creative and educational project for younger people that arises the aim of counteracting gender stereotypes. Starting from the most banal, that is, that women are “geese”.
It also debuts Lights and shadows, a guided tour through the city center which highlights the protagonism of women but also where they are still excluded.
A journey into the contribution of women to liberal demands from the mid-nineteenth century. In 1911, right in the Palazzo Civico of Turin, they met again for the first pro-Women’s Suffrage Congress. But only in 1987 did Turin see its first mayor, Maria Magnani Noya, elected (in 7,915 Italian municipalities in 1986 there were 145 mayors).
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