Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
P.For the first time in our recent history, due to the upcoming elections scheduled for September 25th, politics also invades the holiday season.
And so, between the soaking chatter and those exchanged along the mountain paths, the names and slogans of the electoral campaign resound.
If I had to say which is the debate that ignites the most spirits, I would put first the hypothesis, unprecedented in our country, of a female premiership.
According to the polls that attest the Brothers of Italy ahead of other parties, its leader Giorgia Meloni would naturally run for the presidency of the Council.
But will the leader really point to Palazzo Chigi personally or, if she wins her side, will she delegate someone else? It does not escape me that the question is certainly political and concerns above all the keeping of the alliance but, if you will allow it, not only.
There are considerations that also concern female psychology and that sense of inadequacywhich catches us women when we are finally called to break the “glass ceiling”.
In the many interviews I have done with women who have come to truly manage power, I have noticed that this female psychological aspect is measured by the time it takes them to explain to me in detail the cursus honorum that brought them there.
Almost as if it were necessary to expose their credentials, as if their arrival at the top could be attributed to something else. And in the other there are the necessary ones personal relationships which, in the case of a leader, are called a “social network”, and if instead they concern a leader, they turn towards “closeness”, “friendship”, when not “co-optation”.
The insecurity that takes us to the final goal is the legacy of not being used to power and is so conditioning that it can sometimes lead to a step backwards.
To give an example, in some competitions for top positions in the Public Administration there is a vertical collapse of candidates between the written and oral tests: many do not even deliver, persuaded as they are, that they have not developed a text that is up to the test. But not trying is a sure way to lose.
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