Only five of the CEOs of Italy's top 100 companies in terms of market capitalisation are women, according to the latest 'Sesso è Potere' (sex is power) report by the two associations info.nodes and onData.
Although Premier Giorgia Meloni became Italy's first female head of government in October, the report, for which the two associations used open data, but also manually collected data to draw a map of how power is distributed between the sexes, stresses that significant imbalances persists in Italy's political and media spheres too.
According to the report, local politics continues to be dominated by male power:
“Out of 121,231 male and female citizens who hold an elective office at municipal or regional level, counted by the Register of Administrators of the Ministry of the Interior, there are 80,240 men, who therefore representing 66.19 per cent,” the report says.
The report’s findings also show that women were the mayors of only 1,121 (or 15 per cent) of the 7,452 towns and cities reported on the interior ministry's portal.
It shows that 81.5 per cent of the editors of Italian newspapers with a circulation of over 30,000 were men.
The figures aren't any better among Italy's national news broadcasters, wherein the role of director has been entrusted to a woman in only two cases out of ten - and with one post, that of TG2, whose former director Gennaro Sangiuliano is now Minister of Culture, now being vacant.
"There is a very big imbalance in all the three sectors we analysed," onData’s Paola Masuzzo says.
"Positions of power are still male dominated."
"We are not interested in finding out whether women are better than men, but whether they have the same spaces and resources at their disposal," emphasises Davide Del Monte of info.nodes.
