Letizia Carrera

The job market is changed. The increasing women’s entrance has modified its features and dynamics, but this change it’s not complete and not ended yet. Although these changes, the job world is always a male world. Women have to confront with big problems yet, to consolidate and to assert their presence in it. Big problems both in quantitative terms and in qualitative ones. The phenomenon of vertical and horizontal segregation (ceiling glass and wall glass) is completely existing yet. In spite of this, an increasing number of women invade public and private organizations also in typically male sectors and positions of activity. This research is focused on personal and professional courses of some of women-managers.

Globalization has given rise to an intense and problematic detachment between companies and the territory they work within. This has narrowed the time horizon of the companies, which have been conceiving the territory as a very short-term resource, something to be exploited here and now, without plans for the future. In these condictions, the social responsibility of the company has been suggested as a strategy able to rebuild the lost bond and give the companies complete social subjectivity, that is made possible by the shift from the stoke holder theory to the stake holder one. Within this important change the debate is focused on whether it is right to consider the social responsibility of the company as an economic strategy, in connection with the new character of the citizenconsumer, or it is better to return it to the ethical sphere and found on it the ambitious plan of a responsible and joint society.