Sand I think about my life, everywhere I turn, I am surrounded by women. I’m not referring to feelings, but to work. The newspaper you are reading is edited by a woman. The deputy director of the Corriere della Sera she is a woman, the head of the Roman editorial team is a woman. HarperCollins, the publishing house that published the book on Saint Francis, is led by a woman, her deputy is a woman, and both answer to the global manager: a woman.
At copy book signings, nine out of ten readers are women. Al Corriere della Sera I help out with the interviews: nine out of ten are entrusted to women, Giovanna Cavalli, Elvira Serra, Roberta Scorranese, Candida Morvillo, Irene Soave, Chiara Maffioletti, Maria Volpe, Gaia Piccardi plus other very good ones.
Looking up at the rest of the country, the head of government is a woman, the head of the opposition is a woman. In Europe, the president of the Commission is a woman, the president of the Central Bank is a woman, the foreign minister is a woman.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
Yet, in the famous photo of Sharm, that of peace without enemies (Israel and Hamas were not represented), there is only one woman, namely Giorgia Meloni. And Trump praised her as beautiful. For that matter, had Biden given her a paternal – or paternalistic? – pelvis on the forehead.
A moment of the meeting, on the sidelines of the signing ceremony of the Peace Plan for Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh on 13 October 2025 (photo ANSA/Filippo Attili).
Is Italy a happy island? I wouldn’t say, in 2025 eighty women were murdered by men. Are politics, communication, publishing fields in which women are ahead of others? Maybe yes, but for that matter the majority of young doctors and young judges are women.
Perhaps the answer is that we are in a time of transition. After the great feminist wave, we are caught between a return to the patriarchal past and the push towards a future in which we will no longer look at whether a head of company or state is male or female, but only if he is capable and honest or not. Depending on which direction we take, the future of our beloved daughters and grandchildren will change.
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