Implementare la valutazione di genere nel post covid-19: il ruolo del Diversity Manager e altri possibili spunti di riflessione

Journal title RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione
Author/s Roberta Zonno
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/92
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 58-74 File size 181 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIV2025-092004
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In the past twenty years, Italian Public Administrations have adopted a merit system based on what is called “performances cycle”, from which depend performance remuneration and career progressions. Unfortunately, these evaluations are generally conducted by managers with a gender-neutral approach that does not take into consideration specific gender-based factors, like unpaid care workload of children, disabled and elder relatives due to gender stereotypes, nor sex-based factors, such as pregnancy and birth. Therefore, the purposes of this contribution are to highlight how, despite Italy has a whole legislation promoting gender equality at all levels, the performance system adopted has been contributing to foster gender inequalities, and to hypothesize the potential role of diversity managers to counteract this mechanism that keeps causing gender disparities in terms of economic and career gaps.

Keywords: performance management; gender sensitive approach; diversity manager; gender gap; public institutions

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Roberta Zonno, Implementare la valutazione di genere nel post covid-19: il ruolo del Diversity Manager e altri possibili spunti di riflessione in "RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione" 92/2025, pp 58-74, DOI: 10.3280/RIV2025-092004