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Source: The Washington Post
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Berlusconi’s testosterone politics have been overtaken by women in Italy
The Washington Post
The death of Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire playboy who for decades dominated the boys’ club of Italian politics, comes at a moment that would have been difficult to envision during his testosterone-charged era: Italian women have inherited the...
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Source: The Rockefeller Foundation
Thursday, June 08, 2023
Women political leaders gather in Bellagio, Italy for summit hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Women political leaders, including former heads of state and current ministers, gathered at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center from June 5-8 to discuss effective governance; the erosion of women’s political participation; and strategies...
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Source: Wanted in Rome
Wednesday, June 07, 2023
Italian politician becomes first to breastfeed in parliament
Wanted in Rome
Italian MP Gilda Sportiello has become the first politician to breastfeed in the nation's parliament. Sportiello, a member of the populist Movimento 5 Stelle, fed her newborn baby boy during a public administration vote in the lower house on...
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Italian women MPs win right to breastfeed in chamber (Picture: Senato Stamp)
Monday, November 21, 2022
Italian women MPs win right to breastfeed in chamber
NDTV
Breastfeeding members of the chamber of deputies will be allowed to sit in the top row of the assembly, or in a reserved gallery. Rome: Italian women MPs will be allowed to breastfeed their children in the Chamber during debates, the committee...
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Giorgia Meloni at a Brothers of Italy rally in Milan. Sunday, 11 September 2022. - Copyright Brothers of Italy
Monday, September 26, 2022
Giorgia Meloni: The far-right party leader set to be Italy's first female prime minister
Euronews
Italy's far-right leader Giorgia Meloni says she would be "honoured to break a taboo" and become the country's first female prime minister. Exit polls suggest her Brothers of Italy party won Italy's snap general election on Sunday. The party leads a...
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Giorgia Meloni lors de son premier grand meeting pour les législatives, le 23 août 2022.   -   Tous droits réservés  Domenico Stinellis/Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Giorgia Meloni is the great favorite to win the legislative in Italy
Paudal
The leader of the Italian extreme right, Giorgia Meloni, is the great favorite to win the legislative elections in September, according to the latest polls. If the trend continues, Meloni could become the first woman in charge of the head of...
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Italian President Giovanni Leone and Vittoria Leone Walk with President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford through Quirinale Palace in Rome. Photo: The U.S. National Archives, Public Domain.
Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Italy’s gender equality conundrum
Italics Magazine
Italy’s new President, once again, is not a woman. But the problem is not just cultural. Two weeks ago, Sergio Mattarella was sworn in as the Italian President of the Republic. He accepted his second seven-year term after six days and seven...
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Pope Francis spreads incense during a mass in which he ordained new bishops.      Copyright  AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino - Euronews
Monday, November 08, 2021
Raffaella Petrini: Italian nun first woman appointed by Pope to lead Vatican governorate
Euronews
Pope Francis has appointed the first-ever woman to head the governorate of the Vatican City. Sister Raffaella Petrini will serve as secretary-general of the Governorate and become the highest-ranking woman in the world's smallest state. The 52-year-...
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Friday, October 09, 2020
Interviews
Michela Montevecchi
Michela Montevecchi is a Secretary of the Senate Presidency of Italy. This interview was conducted in March 2019 in the margins of the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) in New York.
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Friday, May 08, 2020
Dateci Voce: Italian women demand voice in Covid-19 fight
Boston Globe
Women in Italy have demanded a greater role in the country's official response to the coronavirus outbreak. Italy has one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in Europe, with almost 30,000 fatalities. Yet the Civil Defence's daily briefings on the...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Blue dress and new-look women upstage Italy's macho politicians
BBC
Since the unification of Italy in the late 19th Century, the country has had 58 prime ministers - every one a man. No woman has come close to leading this country. Female politicians in Italy have often been used either as decoration or as tokens of...
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Friday, August 16, 2019
Voices: Three questions for Marta Grande, young MP, Italy
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Voices is part of a new IPU web series in which we interview parliamentarians from around the world. The views and opinions they express are their own and do not necessarily reflect the IPU’s position. Marta Grande, young MP from Italy, is a member...
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
Five women said to be in running to become Italy's transitional PM
The Guardian
Five women are among the names floated to lead a transitional government in Italy in what some speculate could be President Sergio Mattarella’s attempt to break with tradition while the country’s politics are mired in stalemate. Mattarella is...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Italy's new parliament is younger, more diverse and more female
The Local
Italy may not have a government yet, but it does have nearly 1,000 new legislators. Two weeks after Italians voted, Italy's 315 newly elected senators have been registering at the houses of parliament in Rome since Monday and the 630 new deputies...
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Thursday, March 01, 2018
Women dominate Italy’s army of undecided voters
The Financial Times
On the evening of Italy’s March 4 general election, Tiziana Stellato will be counting ballots in the hospital where she works. But like many disgruntled Italians, she may not even vote. What is especially distressing to Ms Stellato is the thought of...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Italy's parliament speaker exasperated after cartoon
"Men, enough sexism, it's 2016," the president of Italy's lower house of parliament wrote on Twitter after a newspaper published a cartoon about a female MP's thighs and a headline described the women's Olympic archery team as "chubby". An...
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Monday, June 20, 2016
Virginia Raggi becomes first female mayor of Rome
In Rome, 37-year-old lawyer Virginia Raggia promised a new era for the city as she celebrated her victory over centre-left Democratic Party candidate Roberto Giachetti with 67% of the votes. Virginia Raggi has been elected as Rome's first female...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015
Multimedia
Make It Happen-International Women's day 2015
Why is it important for women to be active in Politics? Eleonora Palmero answers (Italy)
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