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”
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8 marzo (March 8): La Festa della donna or Giornata internazionale della donna (International Women’s Day)
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)”
Where are the women?
Finding a complex problem for a problem-based learning unit can be daunting, but it does not have to be an earth-shattering or brand new issue to launch into a PBL unit and include students in the process. March is traditionally Women’s History Month and it spawned this question in my mind: where are the womenContinue reading “Where are the women?”
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