Italy: the INAIL wants to promote the equal opportunities culture in the workplace and to better target its prevention policy function of the gender

The Italian social security organization, which managed the industrial accident and occupational diseases scheme, committed, with the government's services in charge of equal opportunities, to integrate the gender and discrimination problems into its prevention activities. It should also spread among companies good practices in terms of conciliation between professional and family life which it tried out for two years as part of a plan commanded by the government, thanks to which it became a true social laboratory for gender issues. (Ref. 070681)
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The new protocol, supposed to last for two years, was signed in Rome on July 25 by the head of the department for Rights and Equal Chances (Dipartimento per i Diritti e le Pari Opportunità), Silvia Della Monica, and by the president of the national institute for insurance against industrial accidents (INAIL), Vincenzo Mungari. Its goals are :

  • To promote an equal chances culture. Decided by the October 12, 2004 protocol, the biennial plan Eowyn turned the INAIL into a real gender mainstreaming
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