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4 Significant Contemporary and Modern Italian Women in Politics

Veduta interna dell'aula della Camera dei Deputati italiana

Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy On October 22, 2022 Giorgia Meloni took the oath of office as Italy’s first female Prime Minister. Born on January 15, 1977 in Rome, Meloni grew up in the Garbatella district of that district. Her father left the family when Meloni was young, so she grew up with aContinue reading “4 Significant Contemporary and Modern Italian Women in Politics”

8 marzo (March 8): La Festa della donna or Giornata internazionale della donna (International Women’s Day)

A bouquet of yellow mimosa flowers with 8 photographs of women from different parts of the world hung on a light pink background. 8 March Women's Day is written in red in the bottom right corner

March 8th is a worldwide day to celebrate women and their contributions to their societies and cultures. This tradition actually began on February 28, 1909, in the United States, to commemorate and honor the women protesting for better working conditions in a garment workers’ strike in New York City that happened in 1908. But accordingContinue reading “8 marzo (March 8): La Festa della donna or Giornata internazionale della donna (International Women’s Day)”