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Carfagna is keen to emphasize her ministry's accomplishments: a law on stalking, for example, "has made Italian women feel more secure." The government is committed to tackling domestic violence, she says, and to helping women achieve equal opportunities in the workplace. She has her work cut out for her: Italy has the lowest percentage of working women in Europe. Only 2% of top management positions in Italy are held by women, less than in Kuwait. In last year's Global Gender Gap report from the World Economic Forum, Italy ranked 67th out of 130 countries. Such figures are particularly...
...backlash against it - and Berlusconi. Earlier this year, two women parliamentarians argued that he had breached the European Convention of Human Rights for his "repeated statements that offend female dignity." Lorella Zanardo, a management consultant and former Unilever executive, grew so disgusted with the scenes of degradation on Italian television that she made her own video to raise awareness of the problem, splicing together clips from shows. The closing shot, from a show called Joking Apart, shows a woman in a thong hung on a hook in a meat locker, next to the bloody carcasses. "Women come...
Imagine: women who are not young and not beautiful, daring to show their faces on Italian TV. In Silvio Berlusconi's Italy, that really is a new idea...
...Fantastic Film Festival For 10 days in July, this nondescript Seoul suburb becomes the nerd capital of the Asia-Pacific region. Fantasy films (particularly Asian work) and animé make up the great majority of the program, although in the past special sections have been devoted to things like Italian horror and Fritz Lang. Like your movies with lots of slashing, burning and jousting? Then PiFan is for you. Visit pifan.com...
Elaborating the saint-sinner theme later, an Italian civil lawyer arguing for millions in damages against the American called Knox a "Luciferina ... dirty in her soul," who is "beautiful in her looks but also sly and intelligent. Is she the good-looking, charming, clean white face we see here today? Keep in mind that the girl we see is a girl that has been changed by two years in prison." (See the tough women behind the Amanda Knox case...