The Equal Opportunities Committee of the Lawyer Order of Vibo Valentia on International Women’s Day is not lacking in remembering and raising awareness of the category of lawyer to be Also guaranteed by the rights of the person and equal opportunities, in a context in which legislative and social activities, aimed at removing all form and cause of discrimination, find substantial obstacles in the economic, working, political, and family world.
In fact, the President Giusi Fanelliunderlines how if on the one hand the Constitutional Charter has recognized the equal social dignity without distinction of sex, the same rights of the woman with respect to the worker and the right to the same salary, the right to vote also to women and has admitted access to public offices and elective offices also to women, and the legislator has started a path of autonomy and emancipation of women who over the years has also produced significant changes to the legislation, of the workers due to marriage, to the protection of workers mothers also with the establishment of municipal nursery schools, to the reform of the family law in which the weight of the education of the children weighed, in fact, on the mothers, the “homeland authority”, today “parental responsibility”, which is up to both parents, to the recognition of legal equality between the spouses who have equal rights and responsibilities, certainly Women and men in the working, political, social and economic field is constantly conquering.
It is precisely on this line that the CPO in the last session, in order to be proactive and above all substantially guarantor of the rights of equal opportunities, deliberates the proposal of a protocol to be subscribed with the Court, the Prosecutor, the COA and all the forensic associations of the territory to which it has already been subjected to protecting equal opportunities, parenting with respect to legitimate impediment. Still on the subject of equal and constitutional rights, a project of meetings and workshops with the primary schools of the province of Vibo Valentia deliberates in order to make the citizens of the future aware and equal.
From the lawyer to young people, there is no lack of exit in the local community where the reflection on the theme of equality and gap between man and woman in the world of work is testified by a recognition -realized by the Vibonese artist Antonio La Gamba – given to the pizzaiola irene malfaràthe only woman, moreover Calabrian, selected from the 45 pizza chefs who reached the Sanremo Festival. The message that the committee wanted to send is that a woman can do any job, without limits, breaking every barrier and showing that strength, determination and passion have no genre. Irene told of the members of the CPO Gabriella Riga, Rosalba Polistena, Valeria Cortese and Giusi Fanelli, how it was the need to grow her children, the desire for redemption to engineer and dedicate themselves to a profession in which women are not few, but still in number largely lower than men being a job, that of the pizza chef, still perceived as almost exclusively male. Irene says that she almost always found herself competing with colleagues men with whom she worked without any discrimination or difficulty and with the pleasant discovery that the woman in this profession reveals a fantasy and a precision that is not always so natural in men.
A lot of way to go and long times, the studies say that they will serve 131 years to achieve full equality but certainly, concludes Fanelli, the active and concrete commitment to contribute to fill the gap both in political emancipation and in economic, social and work opportunities, cannot be missing.