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				<title>Cuts in companies&#8217; DE&#038;I plans: it is not only about the money</title>
				<link>https://alleyoop.ilsole24ore.com/2024/05/06/companies-dei/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Paola Mosca]]></dc:creator>
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With rising living costs, ongoing threats to the global supply chain, low retention rates, and a growing skill gap, some companies put DE&amp;I's investments and efforts on hold. At the end of 2023, HR experts recognised the deprioritisation of diversity and inclusion within firms as one of this year's main trends. This situation was anticipated last summer by the pushbacks of some big US firms (like Google and Meta) in their DE&amp;I plans, efforts, and investments. Efforts that were boosted just a few years prior, following George Floyd's murder in 2020.

We are not seeing a lack of interest or a U-turn in the growing (yet still...]]>
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				<title>Children&#8217;s mental health is a growing concern worldwide</title>
				<link>https://alleyoop.ilsole24ore.com/2023/05/16/childrens-mental-health/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Paola Mosca]]></dc:creator>
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Schoolchildren are struggling. Well beyond the stress to keep their scores up. Data show a <strong>worrying drop in levels of their mental health</strong>, which many experts link to the effect of pandemic closures—directly caused by the loss of social contacts, the deaths of loved ones and the impact of the jobs setbacks in their families.

Warnings on the possible tolls on children's development and the potential effects of <a href="https://alleyoop.ilsole24ore.com/2023/03/16/poverta-disuguaglianze-educative/">widening inequalities</a> have been published starting from day one of the first lockdowns. But Covid-19 has reinforced some trends that, in many cases, were already latent. Undoubtedly, it has affected children's...]]>
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				<title>Anna Dorangricchia (UfM) on women entrepreneurs in MENA region</title>
				<link>https://alleyoop.ilsole24ore.com/2023/03/28/anna-dorangricchia/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Paola Mosca]]></dc:creator>
								<source>English</source>
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In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, women who open a business undertake a gruelling path. <a href="https://alleyoop.ilsole24ore.com/2022/08/30/women-led-businesses-have-big-potential-still-they-are-not-thriving/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Female entrepreneurs</a> face some of the highest levels of discrimination in accessing capital or productive resources: 45%, compared to the world average of 27%. In an area with one of the<strong> highest unemployment levels</strong>, over half of the female workforce is hired informally, and women tend to spend six times more on domestic work and unpaid care.

If already worldwide, girls and women are the most impacted by economic downturns. In this region, they are also threatened by disasters related to climate change, economic...]]>
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				<title>ILO launches two new tools to investigate care policies worldwide</title>
				<link>https://alleyoop.ilsole24ore.com/2023/03/20/ilo-care-policies/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Paola Mosca]]></dc:creator>
								<source>English</source>
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In which state are maternity protection policies around the world? How many days are entitled to dads when their child is born? The International Labour Organization (ILO) has gathered data to help answer these questions. And has recently announced two new digital tools: the <a href="https://www.ilo.org/globalcare/?language=en#home">Global Care Policy Portal</a> and the<strong> Care Policy Investment Simulator</strong>.

As ILO describes, its open-access portal is “<em>a knowledge hub on legal and statistical indicators on national care leave policies and services</em>.” While the Investment Simulator, free to use previous registration, “<em>calculates the investment requirements in 4 care policy areas and...</em>]]>
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				<title>Dell Women Entrepreneurs City Index: London is the best</title>
				<link>https://alleyoop.ilsole24ore.com/2023/02/21/women-entrepreneurs-london/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Paola Mosca]]></dc:creator>
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When asked how the pandemic affected their businesses, according to recent surveys*, <strong>half of female early-stage entrepreneurs agreed it created new business opportunitie</strong>s; one quarter reported it prompted the use of new digital technologies; and over half confirmed they expect to adopt more digital technologies in the coming months. Yet in 2023, men entrepreneurs are still twice as likely as them to raise more than 100k $ in funding. More often choose more innovative sectors, and start their businesses earlier in their lives (40% begin before 35, and 8% before 25.)

Globally women are active entrepreneurs. And almost...]]>
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