Minister Bonetti meets with Women&Tech Young Ambassadors: Highlights of the dialogue

Milan, May 11 2021 - Women&Tech - Women and Technology Association presented its new project dedicated to young people to the Minister for Equal Opportunities and the Family, Professor Elena Bonetti: Women&Tech Young Ambassadors .

The initiative is aimed at girls who are pursuing or have completed degrees in STEM disciplines and was presented during the online event "Questions to understand the present and design the future" in a conversation between the Minister and the Women&Tech Young Ambassadors.

Through the questions of the Ambassadors, a dialogue has been opened for comparison and sharing of expectations for the future professional and personal lives of the new generations, on the topics of combating gender stereotypes, pay equality, and Stem training.

"Gender equality is not only a condition of fairness but of active contribution of women to the development and well-being of the community - Minister Elena Bonetti explained. Encouraging female work and women in STEM is the way to activate positive dynamics and to give back to our society the energy that is necessary to face the challenges of the future."

The first challenge that is about to start and that involves the Young Ambassadors is a social mentoring operation in which these young women will make their experience and time available to support students in middle and high schools in guiding their choices for their professional and work life. This is a topic very dear to WomenTech, which already in 2009 launched the ReadyForFuture project, aimed at middle school students to illustrate the future jobs in the Steam area. This new project is aimed not only at students but also at NEET (Neither in Employment nor in Education or Training) who are currently more than two million in Italy.

"Women in Stem are carriers of creativity - Minister Bonetti emphasized - and break the stereotype that Stem subjects are hard sciences, primarily masculine. Training in Stem is essential to enable women to access the most qualified leadership roles that will emerge in the coming years under the impetus of the EU's major investments in the green and digital transition. Furthermore, the world that artificial intelligence is shaping in algorithm writing must immediately and necessarily include the presence and contribution of women: their exclusion would generate a world even more reflective of a partial, male-only vision."

At the end of the meeting, the Minister thanked "Women&Tech - Women and Technologies Association: " Thank you for your ability to have a precise, competent, and courageous look. In this new beginning of the country, we are all called to be protagonists. ".