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On 26 November, in the Prime Minister's Office in Rome, the conference "Maternity and women's work. Stereotypes and new paradigms" took place.
Aim of the conference was not only to investigate the current state of women's employment and assume possible future scenarios but to stimulate a new culture of motherhood. There were many interesting contributions of the participants, from the institutional actors to representatives of the world of business and services.
Even today, for majority of the companies, the maternity is primarily a problem to be managed, determined as the concrete absence of the worker, even it is for a limited period of time. This vision is often accompanied by a feeling of pain by the women who are living this experience considering their own role and their own professional identity.
It is in regard to this negative conception of motherhood that challenge is thrown, which is above all cultural one: to promote a new paradigm of motherhood within business organizations.
Why not try to recognize maternity as the most exceptional experience, the one that is more natural in a woman's life and an opportunity of extraordinary personal growth?
Why not consider that the acquisition of parenting skills involves achieving countless competences, valuable even in the professional field? Such as more development of social skills, a more empathic and engaging leadership, greater delegation skills and more effective time management?
The innovative thesis maam - maternity as a master, proposed by Riccarda Zezzi says: it is possible to rethink the current organizational models starting right from motherhood, overcoming cultural stereotypes that limit the growth of the people within organizations and therefore evolution of the same companies.
Perhaps the time has come for a new paradigm of motherhood at work, which also implies a new way of understanding leadership within organizations? Might be more generative and maternal leadership?