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She Leads”: la parità di genere nel mondo del lavoro
Italy · National · See the Italy profile
The book "She Leads: gender equality in the future of work" written by Stefano Cuzzilla, President Federmanager and 4.Manager together with Andrea Catizone, Lawyer on the rights of the person and discrimination investigates the reasons for the gender gap, denouncing current weak
35% share of managers
Women in managerial roles (Europe) (2022)
28% share of managers
Women in managerial roles (Italy) (2022)
16.5% share of >17,000 companies
Women-owned companies surveyed (2022)
Details
- Promoter
- Stefano Cuzzilla, Andrea Catizone - FederManager — website
- Power domain
- Economic Power
- Methods / tools
- Awareness-raising, Benchmarking
- Keywords
- women in the workplace, women leaders
Context
The book "She Leads: gender equality in the future of work", written by Stefano Cuzzilla (President of Federmanager and 4.Manager) and Andrea Catizone (a lawyer specialising in personal rights and discrimination), examines the persistence of the gender gap in Italian and European management, drawing on the World Economic Forum's 2022 Gender Gap Report.
Results
Analysis by the 4.Manager Observatory, cited in the book, finds that only 35% of managers in Europe are women, a share that falls to 28% of managerial positions in Italy and to 19% among those under executive contracts. A survey of over 17,000 companies found only 16.5% are women-owned, and women hold just 12.2% of board-chair roles and 11.9% of CEO positions.
Conclusions
The book concludes by presenting the professional trajectories, obstacles and enabling factors described by women who have reached leadership roles, framing these as levers for closing Italy's persistent managerial gender gap.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Low (< €50k) — Book publication and associated research/survey work by the 4.Manager Observatory; no budget figures published.
- Time to results
- Short (< 1 year) — Single publication, released alongside its promotional press event.
- Staffing & skills
- Authored by Stefano Cuzzilla (President, Federmanager and 4.Manager) and Andrea Catizone (lawyer specialising in personal rights and discrimination)
Conditions for success
- Drew on the 4.Manager Observatory's original survey of over 17,000 companies
- Anchored in the World Economic Forum's 2022 Gender Gap Report
- Developed in partnership with the University of Siena
Where it fits
- Governance type
- NGO/professional-association publication
- Scale
- national
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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
- Promoter website — accessed 2026-06-14
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