Good practice Imported

Gender equality in the organisation and management of the employment contract with Public Administration

Italy · Roma · National · See the Italy profile

The aim of the guidelines is to provide hints and orientations to avoid discriminatory practices and behaviours when accessing high positions in the public administration. Practices suggested are, amongst the others: monitoring the phenomenon by measuring the number of female can

Details

Promoter: Ministries for the Public Administration and Equal Opportunities
Power domain: Political Power
Methods / tools: Awareness-raising, Monitoring, Self-regulation, Benchmarking
Keywords: gender equity in public administration bodies, access to public careers, women leadership, careers' gender balanced

Context

These Italian guidelines offer public administrations orientation to avoid discriminatory practices when filling senior posts, recommending measures such as monitoring the share of female candidates relative to the total.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

ProPEGE — Equal Leadership catalogue — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 96/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 13% in this catalogue (719 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by ProPEGE consortium (Equal Leadership)

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Transferability / replicability2/3

How readily the practice can be replicated or transferred to other contexts (graded 0–3).

Impact on gender equality1/1

Whether the practice demonstrably improved gender-equality outcomes.

Effectiveness1/1

Whether it achieved its intended objectives.

Efficiency1/1

Whether results were achieved at a reasonable cost and effort.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

Whether the outcomes were formally evaluated or measured.

Achievement / evidence1/1

The strength of documented evidence that the practice worked.

Sustainability1/1

Whether the practice is ongoing or has lasting institutional structures.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

How well gender equality is embedded across strategy, continuity and financing.

Curator validation1/1

The ProPEGE curators' validation of quality, scope and final approval.

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Evidoria. Gender equality in the organisation and management of the employment contract with Public Administration. Persistent ID: a79e9c00-29dd-4076-9839-27988bf94328.

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