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the Italian women “are the heart, the face, the backbone of Italy. Their hopes, their projects, their suffering enliven the social fabric of our country. ” These are the words with which the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella has expressed his best wishes to all Italian citizens during the ceremony of the International Women’s Day at the Quirinale. With today’s celebration, he recalled Mattarella, opens “the celebration of the seventy years of the Republic. Anniversary which coincides with the first vote cast by women. And, as we have seen, it is only a coincidence. “
Do not dispel the” conquest “of the vote to women
In his speech, the president It focused on policy, whose task today is to “regain the confidence of citizens, with consistency and reliability, with concern for the common good and the principles of legality.” The power in fact “not legitimate from himself but from the service they render to the community.” In this scenario, the full recognition of women’s political rights “is foundational element of our Republic,” he added the head of state: “After so much effort to conquer it, we must not dissipate or set aside the right to vote.”
Against the turnout, “wound not to be overlooked”
At the center of intervention also the growing abstentionism Mattarella that characterized the elections of recent years, defined ” a wound that no one can afford to overlook: the political participation of citizens today has been reduced, and unfortunately this happens more among women. ” Power, added the head of state, “it is not legitimate from himself, but from the service that makes the community”, and “the alienation and distance, that citizens feel, should be reduced with a shot of vitality of the institutions and of parties, which remain essential tool of democratic life. “
Violence on women” plague to counter with all the energy “
After reaching the theme which is dedicated the women’s Day 2016 – “women for the Republic: 70 years from the vote to women” – the President of the Republic wanted to dwell on the violence, especially domestic, real emergency of recent years. For Mattarella “there is no freedom when the woman at work is a victim of physical or moral violence or pressed into the spaces of suffering.” Despite a greater sensitivity on this front, “violence against women is still a scourge of our society, which is believed modern, and must be tackled by all the energy we have and with the severity of which we are capable, without ever giving in to ‘ selfish indifference. ”
The absence of women’s work among the causes of the population decline
One of the most applauded steps of Mattarella speech was when President highlighted the “negative connection “now it exists” between the work is lacking and population decline. It is true that work away the woman from maternity leave. The opposite is true: precisely the increase of women’s work can become a favorable factor to the birth. ” “Without an increase in the female labor – then he reiterated Mattarella – the country will not have the growth that we all hope and we can not really talk about out of the crisis.” Among the priorities, the overcoming of the gap between male and female employment, which today “is more than twenty percentage points.” And the lack of women’s work “is the data that weighs more on the national employment rate, forcing them to very low levels at the European level.”
Woods recalls the “suspicion” that welcomed the vote in women
in the middle of the ceremony hosted at the Quirinale palace national and international evidence on the role of women in society, the progress made and those to do. Present, the authorities in the group, the minister of Education, University and Research, Stefania Giannini and that for the Constitutional Reform and Relations with Parliament, Maria Elena Boschi, who in his speech he recalled the “atmosphere of distrust “seventy years ago he welcomed” the great achievement of the women’s vote. ” A major national newspaper of the time, recalled then Woods, “the headline in a somewhat ‘sarcastically pointing out that in a time when there was no bread, we took care of the women’s vote.”
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