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...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 shocking for women like Elisa Manna, who is old enough to remember Italy's muscular feminist movement of the 1970s. "Back then, young women wanted to become doctors, lawyers - professional people," says Manna, director of the Department of Cultural Policies Centre for Social Studies and Policies (CENSIS) in Rome. "It was terrible to get ahead in your profession because...
...second new leader in six months. And for most Italians fed Mediaset fare for 30 years, Berlusconi's cultural outlook runs deep. Midway through the ironing contest on Quelli Che ... , the would-be schedine look up from their ironing boards to watch a comedy clip, in which three fat, old women compete in a beauty contest. The audience laughs, as do the presenters and the schedine...
...main reasons bad old habits have lingered is that despite the gains of the past decade or so, the same few families and business groups continue to control the region's economy. The 14 clans that commanded El Salvador's vital coffee industry, for instance, have morphed into eight conglomerates in recent years, but they still have a choke hold on the country's finances. In Honduras, such tycoons as José Rafael Ferrari and Freddy Nasser monopolize sectors like broadcasting and energy - and, say analysts, continue to exert incredible influence on the government. Little will change, says Rosenberg, unless...
...shocking The Piano Teacher, in which Isabelle Huppert plays a sexually repressed woman living in bourgeois Austrian society. She acts out her sadomasochistic fantasies by watching porn, sniffing semen-soaked tissues and cutting her genitals with a razor blade before embarking on an affair with a 17-year-old student. (Read about an American university's battle over porn...
Does this mean Haneke is becoming a tiny bit softer in his old age? He doesn't see it that way - in fact, he rejects the notion that his films reflect his personality at all. "People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am," he says, a wry smile sneaking out from beneath his beard. "I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist." (Read a brief history of the Palme...