The history of women emancipation in Italy has been long and not always simple, but some may wonder why talking about women emancipation is important still today: in the end, Italy is a country where women enjoy equal rights and opportunities as men, just as in the rest of the Western world.
Gender equality remains, in 2019, a hot topic and a difficult one to tackle. There are still places in the world where, for culture, habits and traditions, women are considered socially inferior to men, their bodies and minds mere commodities belonging to the dominant males in their lives: fathers, brothers, husbands.
