Pomellato launches International Women’s Day 2026 initiative
March 6, 2026
Pomellato presents “The Price Of Freedom”
Ms. Monaghan is the first to use her voice in the video, with every other talent following suit. The film follows a choral format, with the collective completing each other’s sentences as sequences cut between multiple participants, who together uplift awareness of how financial constraints place publicly invisible control over women.
Economic abuse, while lacking a physical component, is a form of violence that removes autonomy from relationships, requiring that the woman be dependent on her partner. To identify these overarching signs of economic abuse, the jeweler commissioned research from the Italian university SDA Bocconi School of Management.
In turn, Pomellato and its representatives position financial monitoring or restriction, exploitation of women’s income and sabotage of personal work and time as the core tenets of the prevalent behavior in the film. Together, the voices speak on how economic support can lead to full dependence, how supposed care transforms into full control, as well as stating that financial constraints make other forms of abuse much more difficult to escape.
[caption id="attachment_432299" align="alignnone" width="465"] According to American nonprofit National Network to End Domestic Violence, economic abuse occurs in 99 percent of domestic violence cases. Image courtesy of Pomellato[/caption]
To further its goal of raising awareness, the maison is also continuing its ongoing partnerships with Casa di Accoglienza delle Donne Maltrattate, which is Milan's first anti-violence center for women, and the Los Angeles-based not-for-profit organization FreeFrom. The latter institution seeks to provide long-term financial security to domestic violence survivors.
Powerful messaging
Pomellato for Women has been active since 2017, its launch coinciding with the 50th an
What began as a single program established on the conviction that women, given adequate financial, social and human capital support, can drive meaningful change in business and society has expanded considerably in scope over two decades.
The number of annual fellows has grown from 18 to 30, new regional categories have been added to reflect a widening geographic reach and the fellowship curriculum has deepened to include a customized INSEAD Women’s Impact Entrepreneurship Programme, executive leadership coaching and ongoing business training.
The impact data bears out the program’s reach. According to a 2025 fellow survey, 76 percent of recent fellows had grown their revenue and 44 percent had entered new markets since completing the fellowship.
Sixty-six percent raised additional financing in 2024. At the completion of their fellowship year, 97 percent of 2024 fellows reported increased self-confidence, 94 percent reported stronger leadership skills and 100 percent felt a sense of belonging to a global community.
This year’s cohort reflects the program’s continued geographic expansion. For the first time, the initiative has recognized a fellow from Nepal.
[caption id="attachment_433133" align="alignnone" width="465"] In two decades, the program has backed 330 fellows across 66 countries, distributing more than $14 million in grant funding. Image credit: Cartier[/caption]
The 30 selected fellows represent the top t
