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Questa bacheca contiene le storie di donne importanti, da celebrare ogni giorno, elaborate da alcuni corsisti di lingua inglese a UniTE (Università di Genova).   

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Questa bacheca contiene le storie di donne importanti, da celebrare ogni giorno, elaborate da alcuni corsisti di lingua inglese a UniTE (Università di Genova).   

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I want to dedicate this space to a Brazilian singer. Elza was born in a favela and she had a difficult life. Elza is the icon and portrait of the hard life that African descendants have. They still pay the heavy price of centuries of slavery imposed by the Europeans. Here I will not write her story but I invite everyone to read it on the internet.
Liliana

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elza_Soares

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I don't like International Women's day; I think that women are special every day.
Today I'll speak about Clara. She was born in 1927 and she had three sisters and one brother.
Her life was very difficult because she lived her childhood during the Second World War. In that time she ran with her siblings into the tunnels to save the life.
My grandmother for a short time came back to Siracusa and Clara took care of the family: she cooked, washed and worked, but always with strength and joy.
Ten years later Clara married Pietro and she built her family.
Clara is my mummy and on the 8th March 2020 I saw her beautiful smile for the last time; I miss her but I know that she is always with me.
Alessandra

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An extraordinary woman is not necessarily a person of artistic, scientific or related to important historical facts: it can be a woman who lives her  days in a simple way, however important she is for people she meets or who are always close to her.
This woman is a special person to me, my point of reference, a constant and certain presence.
She went through various "bad weathers" in her life, but she remained positive.
She is intelligent, flexible and always in line with times. A woman I love and I thank our mom for giving her to me.
That special woman is.....
My Sister

Gloria P.

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Flowers were for many years the image of lost Paradise common to all

cultures.

Floral art began with interest for table decorations.

Gertrude Jekill, who taught the art of landscape gardening, with

“Flower Decoration in the House” in 1907 showed how flowers could be transformed into excellent ornamental centerpieces .

Today this history continue with love.

Thank you Jekill

Miria

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The most important woman of my life is my daughter. She has changed my life from the moment she was born, and now, even if she is 38 years old and she walks with her legs, for me she is the most important woman in the world.
Carla C.

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I would like to talk about        a woman like many others.    She has a literature degree, but she prefers to follow her father's example:  to follow the sea ! She crossed the Atlantic Ocean eight times delivering or racing sailing boats. She as also sailed on Pacific Ocean and Chinese Sea. She was part of “Luna Rossa” team in Auckland        during the 2001 campaign.      I know her, she’s my daughter.
Laura G.

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Madre Teresa Di Calcutta was born in Albania in 1910, she dedicates her life to poor people, she travels all over the world and she brings word of peace and brotherhood, she dies in Calcutta in India in 1997. She was proclaimed blessed in 2003 by Pope Giovanni Paolo II
Enrico

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IPAZIA  lived in ancient Greece and was a scholar in Maths and Astronomy and a philosopher in the “school of Alessandria”.  Her passion for teaching surrounds her of  disciples and often she walks on the road, she gives lessons to people that wanted to listen her to improve their knowledge. After Christians arrival and the destruction of pagane temples Ipazia was considered a witch and so burned up.
I think she was a great woman and as always happens she aroused men’s envy.
Matilde P.

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A favorite writer of mine is Donatella Di Pietrantonio. She was born in Arsita (1963) and she lives in Penne, Abruzzo, a little region, rude and harsh as her writing.
In particular, I like her ability to tell the tears, the lacerations of life with rough, outspoken words but full of meaning.
Her first book "Mia madre è un fiume" isn't the best one but to me it's the most attractive one because it follows part of my life.
A elderly woman shows the first signs of disease (Alzheimer) that progressively takes away her memories, identity, the very meaning  of existence. Her daughter will have to take care of her and she helps to rebuild her story in a difficult and painful way.
All books by D. Di Pietrantonio: "Bella mia", "L'Arminuta", "Borgo Sud" talk about the complexity of family relationships, they touch deep chords and have in common a great and rare expressive intensity.

Mariarosa G

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She is an international icon of independent and revolutionary women: Frida Kahlo.

A life of constant suffering (she broke her column in an accident), which he managed to convey and represent through his greatest passion, art.

In her art she portrays herself and manages to transform pain into beauty.

A woman who talks about her suffering without shame. The physical and inner pain for a marriage with many infidelities and the impossibility of having children. One of his words is famous : I lived for art, I lived for love!

Gerolamo A.

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A few years ago I visited Frida Kahlo's art exhibition at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.
I was faschinated by her beautiful self portraits and paintings of plants and animals of jungle.
She was a woman who loved Mexican Folk Art.
After a terrible  bus accident, she had to carry a metal bust for a long time.
During this period she suffered a lot, but she continued to paint.
Frida was a very courageous and passionate artist woman.
Part of  her last works, concerns delicate and important women's problems.
She died young.

Laura Moroni

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She was an emigrant, worker, actress and photographer in Mexico in the 1920s, anti-fascist, militant in the international communist movement, persecuted and political exile, Garibaldian from Spain.

She's a woman with a disordered, tumultuous and eventful existence.

The period that I find most interesting from an artistic point of view is when he moved to Mexico where he stayed with numerous artists and intellectuals including the great mural painters Rivera, Siqueiros and Romero.

Famous are the photos of Parade of workers, very important in her career as a photographer, published on Mexican Folkways, opening  the way for an artistic production strongly related to her social and political interests.

Cristina L.

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Aisha and her story. To remember that millions of young girls are forced by their fathers to marry every years.
https://www.savethechildren.it/sh/la-storia-di-una-sposa-bambina/
https://medicinaonline.co/2016/10/11/il-dramma-delle-spose-bambine-70-mila-allanno-muoiono-di-parto/
Laura N.

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It was September 2018, and finally the dream of a lifetime came true: open a place where books for children and teenagers are sold, where you can have simple and genuine snacks and lunches, where you rest assured while the children play or browse books. A warm and welcoming meeting point in the historical center: La Locanda delle Favole. For all of this  Stefy left a job as  marketing manager, invested his savings and also  neglected her two children and her husband a little... but she was so happy.
At first few earnings, lot of work but always with a smile on her face... Then , when the business starts to grow , the Covid Pandemic arrives and takes everything away. It's impossible to continue. How much discomfort, how much pain. But life goes on and now that she've fortunately found a new job in marketing, she has created a blog about children's books and her dream, although scaled up, goes on.
I dedicate this March 8 to your strength, to you who taught me never to give up on your dreams... to you .. my daughter. I'm proud of you Stefania.

Patrizia

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In memory of the Red Cross nurses who during World War I treated the soldiers on war's front giving evidence, for the fist time, of the social role of women, not only in family. 

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In memory of the Red Cross nurses who during World War I treated the soldiers on war's front giving evidence, for the fist time, of the social role of women, not only in family. 

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Marherita Kaiser Parodi in 1915, at eighteen years old, joined up leaving from Rome, where she was born, for the Hospital CRI of Cividale in Friuli. Because of her brave behavior, during a bomb attack, the General Staff gave her a bronze medal for gallantry. At the end of the war, when the spanish pandemia broke, she remained next to the sick soldiers until she herself felt ill and died at the hospital of Trieste at twenty one years old. She is buried in the Military Cemetery of Redipuglia, where she is the only woman among hundred thousand soldiers. On her grave, bigger than the others, in the first line, a big cross was sculpted.
Rita G.

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I want to talk about women I have met and have left a teaching in my life, These women don't make the headlines. Women with blond or dark hair, thin, fat, tall, small, mostly very young, all with a seriously ill child. Mothers with hearts as immense as the ocean, able to give relief, confort and love, to reassure, to encourage, to sing sweetly to their little one. Women capable of immersing themselves in science, of penetrating it like a plow into the earth to understand, find a justification, a remedy... and they ask...they ask..., unable to accept the fate of their creature. Women who live weeks, months, in the hospital room, often left alone, forced to hide in the bathroom crying and then skilfully put on makeup their face so that the others don't understand! Mothers who then have to go on living.....
Marisa S.

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I appreciate Oriana for her assertiveness, she said what she thought without any fear to hurt someone.
She was an important journalist and book writer, she interviewed famous personalities and she went in dangerous war places, risking her safety,  just to report the truth.
For Oriana feminism was: the deep freedom to be that you want, in short, he left to women, with her example, the strength to have a position. Right, wrong, contradictory,  counter-current, banal as it may be.

Gaetano B.

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Simona Ravera 53 years old, nurse, experienced the beginning of the Pandemic in Italy (Codogno), she treated patient 1, as a volunteer, she did not shirk her duty by  putting her commitment back into play  donating her experience to the service of Covid patients of a region in difficulty: Umbria, where 8 out of 10 infected are affected by either the " Braslian" or " English"  variant.
Giancarlo

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Sonia Vanular FOUNDER Manager Assistants Founder IMA - International Management Assistants

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Sonia Vanular FOUNDER Manager Assistants Founder IMA - International Management Assistants

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Sonia Vanular passed away in the last month of august 2020 at the age of 98. She was a great woman, who founded this association in 1974, to develop the work of assistant on a professional level. Currently, 30 countries around the world belong to this association. The official language is English.
https://www.ima-network.org/about-ima

Emanuela P.

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She was an enviromentalist from Honduras, leader and co-founder of a native peoples organization  (copinv).
She was killed in 2016 , because she fought against the construction of the dam Aqua Zarca, a threat to the rights and environment of Lenca people.
I choose her because I admire her courage and  love to her people.

Rossana C.

Link to Amnesty

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Il 2 marzo 2016, Berta Cáceres, una coraggiosa difensora dell'ambiente e dei diritti degli indigeni, è stata uccisa a colpi d'arma da fuoco da uomini armati che sono entrati nella sua casa a Intibucá, in Honduras.

Berta e l'associazione di cui faceva parte (il Consiglio civico delle organizzazioni indigene e popolari dell'Honduras - COPINH), aveva lanciato una campagna contro il progetto di costruzione di una diga per la produzione di energia idroelettrica chiamato Agua Zarca, a causa dell'impatto che avrebbe sul territorio del popolo Lenca. Per questo è stata prima minacciata e poi uccisa.

Nel dicembre 2019, un tribunale dell'Honduras ha finalmente emesso la sentenza e una pena detentiva nei confronti di 7 imputati.

Tuttavia, un rapporto di un gruppo indipendente di esperti, assunto dalla famiglia, indica che un maggior numero di persone potrebbe essere stato a conoscenza o aver partecipato alla pianificazione del crimine. Fino ad oggi, non ci sono stati progressi nelle indagini su altri ritenuti responsabili della pianificazione e dell'ordine dell'uccisione Berta.

La mancata identificazione e persecuzione di tutti i responsabili dell'uccisione di Berta, compresi i mandanti, metterebbe a rischio altri difensori dei diritti umani.

Berta e l'associazione di cui faceva parte (il Consiglio civico delle organizzazioni indigene e popolari dell'Honduras - COPINH), avevano lanciato una campagna contro il progetto di costruzione di una diga per produzione di energia idroelettrica chiamato Agua Zarca, a causa dell'impatto che avrebbe sul territorio del popolo Lenca.

Questa lotta ha messo a rischio Berta e continua a rappresentare una grave minaccia per la vita degli altri membri di COPINH e di qualsiasi organizzazione che mette in dubbio l'attuazione di progetti economici nel territorio Lenca (come il Movimento Indigeno Lenca Indipendente di La Paz - MILPAH).

Dall'assassinio di Berta, abbiamo documentato una serie di minacce e azioni di stigmatizzazione nei confronti di coloro che cercano giustizia nel suo caso o portano all'attenzione pubblica le azioni di potenti compagnie contro le comunità locali di contadini indigeni o contadini.

Il 29 novembre 2018, il Tribunale penale dell'Honduras ha ritenuto sette degli otto accusati colpevoli dell'omicidio di Berta.

Più di un anno dopo, nel dicembre 2019, un tribunale ha finalmente emesso la sentenza e una pena detentiva nei loro confronti.

La Corte ha condannato:

Sergio Rodríguez Orellana (un direttore della DESA, la società che ha costruito la diga di Agua Zarca) e Douglas Bustillo (un ufficiale militare in pensione) a 30 anni e 6 mesi di carcere per il loro ruolo di co-autori nell'omicidio di Berta

Mariano Díaz Chávez (un maggiore dell'esercito) a 30 anni di prigione

Henry Hernández (ex soldato), Elvin Rápalo Orellana, Óscar Torres e Edilson Duarte Meza sono stati condannati a 34 anni di prigione per il loro ruolo nell'omicidio di Berta e a 16 anni e 4 mesi di carcere per aver tentato di uccidere anche il difensore messicano Gustavo Castro.

David Castillo Mejía, direttore generale della DESA, arrestato il 2 marzo 2018, è ancora in attesa di processo. Castillo è accusato di aver fornito supporto logistico e altre risorse a uno dei sicari già condannati. È la prima persona a essere accusata come mandante dell'uccisione di Berta.

Tuttavia, un rapporto di un gruppo indipendente di esperti, assunto dalla famiglia, indica che un maggior numero di persone potrebbe essere stato a conoscenza o aver partecipato alla pianificazione del crimine. Fino ad oggi, non ci sono stati progressi nelle indagini su altri ritenuti responsabili della pianificazione e dell'ordine dell'uccisione Berta.

La mancata identificazione e persecuzione di tutti i responsabili dell'uccisione di Berta, compresi i mandanti, metterebbe a rischio altri difensori dei diritti umani.

Ambasciatore Mariano Jimenez Talavera

Ambasciata di Honduras in Italia
Via Emanuele Gianturco, 5
00196 Roma

em bajada@embajadahonduras.it

Sua Eccellenza,

siamo soci e sostenitori di Amnesty International, l'organizzazione non governativa che dal 1961 lavora in difesa dei diritti umani, ovunque siano violati.

Le scriviamo per evidenziare l'importanza di garantire il pieno accesso alla giustizia e alla verità riguardo all'uccisione della difensora dei diritti umani dei popoli nativi dell'Honduras, Berta Cáceres. In qualità di Ambasciatore dell'Honduras in Italia, la esortiamo ad agire per garantire un giusto processo in vista dell'apertura del processo pubblico contro David Castillo, accusato di aver partecipato all'uccisione di Berta Cáceres.

Il 2 marzo 2021 ricorre il quinto anniversario dell'uccisione della famosa difensora dei diritti umani Berta Caceres. Questo tragico evento è stato un duro colpo non solo per la comunità dei difensori nelle Americhe, ma in tutto il mondo, poiché riflette chiaramente il contesto rischioso che i difensori dei diritti umani hanno affrontato e continuano ad affrontare in Honduras. Berta Caceres è diventata un simbolo di speranza e coraggio per tutte le persone che lottano per la giustizia e la dignità.

Berta Cáceres, co-fondatrice del Consiglio civico delle organizzazioni popolari e indigene dell'Honduras (COPINH), è stata uccisa quasi cinque anni fa il 2 marzo 2016 a La Esperanza, Intibucá, dopo aver guidato una campagna per fermare la costruzione di una diga idroelettrica finanziata a livello internazionale su un fiume sacro al suo popolo Lenca. Sette persone sono state giudicate colpevoli per il suo omicidio e il 2 dicembre 2019 sono state condannate a pene detentive. Solo una persona, David Castillo Mejía, è stata finora accusata di essere un "autore intellettuale" della sua uccisione nonostante un rapporto del Gruppo Consultivo Internazionale di Esperti (GAIPE) segnalasse altre persone che avrebbero potuto essere coinvolte nella pianificazione del crimine. Castillo Mejía era il manager della società Desarrollos Energéticos (DESA), responsabile del progetto idroelettrico Agua Zarca.

Secondo il COPINH, fino ad oggi gli avvocati di David Castillo hanno adottato misure per ritardare il processo. Amnesty International ha ripetutamente chiesto alle autorità dell'Honduras di garantire l'accesso alla giustizia, la verità e la riparazione per la famiglia di Berta Cáceres e per i membri del COPINH. In considerazione delle possibili restrizioni all'accesso all'aula del tribunale dovute all'attuale pandemia COVID-19, l'organizzazione invita anche le autorità dell'Honduras ad adottare tutte le misure appropriate per garantire che il processo sia pubblico e trasparente, attraverso l'uso di mezzi a distanza se necessario.

L'Honduras è il paese più pericoloso al mondo per i difensori della terra e dell'ambiente. Secondo l'ultimo rapporto di Global Witness, l'Honduras ha il più alto tasso di uccisioni pro capite di questi difensori nel mondo (14 nel 2019). La mancata identificazione e imputazione di tutti i responsabili dell'uccisione di Berta Cáceres mette in pericolo gli altri difensori e lascia impuniti i responsabili del crimine. Vale la pena notare che, nonostante ciò, lo stato dell'Honduras non ha ancora firmato l'Accordo regionale sull'accesso alle informazioni, la partecipazione pubblica e la giustizia in materia ambientale in America Latina e nei Caraibi (Accordo di Escazú), il primo strumento internazionale vincolante che include la protezione dei difensori ambientali.

È per questi motivi che esortiamo le autorità dell'Honduras a:

1. Garantire il pieno rispetto delle garanzie del giusto processo, garantendo anche la trasparenza e l'accesso del pubblico al processo giudiziario, inclusa la presenza di giornalisti e osservatori.

2. Garantire che venga svolta un'indagine imparziale, indipendente, tempestiva e approfondita per identificare e giudicare coloro che hanno ordinato la sua uccisione, attingendo a tutte le risorse e competenze nazionali e internazionali disponibili che potrebbero aiutare a garantire il diritto delle vittime alla verità e alla giustizia.

3. Riconoscere pubblicamente che la difesa del COPINH e dei diritti del Popolo Lenca, e in particolare la ricerca di giustizia nel caso di Berta Cáceres, è legittima e non dovrebbe essere soggetta ad attacchi e garantire che tale riconoscimento sia concesso al livello più alto del governo honduregno.

4. Firmare e ratificare l'accordo di Escazú, in modo che lo Stato dell'Honduras attui misure specifiche per la protezione dei difensori dei diritti ambientali.

La ringraziamo per l'attenzione.

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Chiedi giustizia per Berta Cáceres, firma ora l'appello!

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Il 2 marzo 2016, Berta Cáceres, una coraggiosa difensora dell'ambiente e dei diritti degli indigeni, è stata uccisa a colpi d'arma da fuoco da uomini armati che sono entrati nella sua casa a Intibucá, in Honduras.

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On February 2nd 2020 three female researchers of Spallanzani Institute, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Francesca Colavita and Concetta Castilletti, have isolated Covid 19, virus responsible of the infection. The partial sequence has been made available to the international scientific community. Capobianchi commented: “the result obtained is the fruit of the teamwork, of the competence and the passion of the virologists of Spallanzani Institute, for years at the forefront of all health emergencies in our country”.

Rossella

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MayMekden is an Etiopian village (in the Tigray); into this village there was a primary school, for all chidren, boys and girls. At the end of primary school, many families sent their boys at the secondary school in Mekelle, the nearest town; this was expensive, so the girls didn't go to school: they had to marry, often before the age of fifteen.
One day at the end of 2010, Endakiros Kahsu, a strong-minded little girl, told: “No, I don't want to marry, I want to go to school”.

At first she had to run away from home, but fortunately her family was quite understanding and, with help from some Italian friends (ass. No Early Marriage) Endakiros and some other girls was supported to go to secondary school.

Step by step, the number of girls from Maymekden in secondary school of Mekelle increased, as long as the government started building a secondary school  for girls into the village.
Today there are not early marriages in MayMekden and in the neighborhood; a lot of girls and boys go to secondary school; some of the older of these took a degree; Endakiros, the first, got a degree as nurse; other who graduated, a little bit before the war, were Selamawit Teka and Yrgalem Mahari (engineer and chemical engineer).

Anna P.

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She was an English woman, who came from a rich family of industrialists.
She was the first woman graduate of the Oxford University.
She loved archaeology and travels in Middle East.
She learned the Arabic language. She was a photographer, a writer and she draw up the geographic maps of the nations that she visited.
For your knowledge of the Middle East she was a spy for the British Empire, interested in an area rich of oil.
She knew Laurence of Arabia and she cooperated whit him in support of the Arabian revolt.
At the end of World War I, she strived to creating a state Iraq.
Never married, she died in Baghdad in 1926.
The director Werner Herzog shot on her the movie "The Queen of Desert".

Anna B.

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My mother Tina is the most influential woman in my life. She was very poor, her life was very difficult, but she has always loved people.

My mother was born in Emilia, a land of farmers and shepherds, she was a shepherd but she was very dynamic.

My mother saw war and pain, but she has a big heart.

She educated me with respect for people and love for life.

Tina passed away but she lives in my soul.

Every day is International Women's day every for me.

Maurizio R.

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There are many women who distinguished themselves in History for their courage, culture and genius.

Right now, my attention is turned to the figure of the Italian senator Liliana Segre.

Before, I knew little about her, only that she was a Holocaust survivor and of Jewish origin, but after watching a lecture on YouTube on her, deported girls and on the life she lived in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, I was moved by her history.

Ripped out from a quiet childhood, deprived of her father's love because he died during the imprisonment, her experience in the camp full of incredible torments, under the domination of people who were not men  but monsters, for her strength, for the courage shown resisting such horror, her events caused me a deep admiration for her.

Michele C.

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One of the most important women in the scientific community.
I love this sentence:
We try to live in peace, whatever our language, our religion, our language and our traditions.
G. R.

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I dedicate this space to my mother, and to all those women who, like her, carry on a family, working hard without much noise.

Nunzia Di Te.

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Mileva Marić was Einstein’s first wife. She was a  physicist and a mathematician. When she was 21 years old, she was admitted to the Polytechnic of Zurich, where she met Albert Einstein. She studied with profit, but her course of study was hampered and in fact she was prevented from graduating. In 1903 she married Albert and left the Polytechnic, but she continued to collaborate in her husband’s studies and  researches. From some letters found it is clear that she actively and intensely participated in the works and researches on Brownian motion, photoelectric effect, special relativity and mass – energy equivalence. These studies led to publish in 1905 the famous articles than form the basis of modern physics. In this period Einstein worked full time at the Patent Office in Bern and without good help he could not have dealt with much demanding scientific work. But Mileva’s name never appeared, next to that of her husband, in international journals. They divorced in 1918 and thereafter Albert seemed become more traditionalist and less farsighted.
Then we must ask ourselves how much Mileva’s contribution there is behind Albert’s insights and genius.
The Polytechnic of Zurich currently seems to be considering the possibility of conferring on Mileva posthumous honorary degree.

Gisella

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Egle was born in 1896. Her mother died after giving birth to the youngest of four sons. The newborn was named “Ouch” to remember the pain that generated him.  Egle raised “Ouch”, she took care of her father and of her brothers and she  worked in the fields. Everyday Egle was the first one to wake up and the last one to go to bed.  Just at the beginning of First World War Egle lost her betrothed, who was sent to certain death on an impossible mission.  Egle brought food to a deserter brother hidden in the woods after their father was put in prison because he didn’t reveal the place where the son was hidden.  Egle hated war for all her life. Egle was part of the group of  women who formed the Section of women of Socialist Party in a small and unknown village and that commitment of the women was continuing even during  the fascist period. Egle struggled against fascism and she was again dragged in the new World War.  The day Egle died, “Ouch” was old but in good health and he told me: "today I lost my sister, my mother, my companion in ideas. It’s an unbearable pain for me; promise me you’ll come to my funeral.”  About three months later I keep my promise. That Egle was my grandmother.

To remember all Egles

Carlo

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RITA LEVI MONTALCINI

It is women's day on 8th of MARCH every year an occasion to remember social achievements, the political and economic struggles and the right's of which the female gender, has been and is the protagonist.

She was an italian neurologist and senator for life, NOBEL LAUREATE for medicine in 1986.
Her discoveries have made her one of the most prestigious italian scientists.
Among  many merits she was the first woman to be admired by the pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Angela S.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes for her social activity.
She is an Iranian human rights lawyer.
She fights against the condition of woman and death penalty.

Mariangela M.

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She is a political woman very active in the defence of human  rights in her country Birmania crushed by a rigid dictator.  For Her action she  is Nobel Peace in 1991. With her politic team she wins the first free election in Birmania in  2015., but now she  is arrested after the military coup d’etat  in February 2021.

Rosalia

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I dedicate this space to my niece Camilla who after her studies  to complete  her career went to live in Canada.
Giovanna P.

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After two centuries of American politics dominated by white men in leadership positions, she’s the first woman elected as vice president of the United States. It’s also very significant that she’s African American and of Tamil origin. Just before taking office, she stated: "I’m here thanks to the all those generations of American women who fought, before me, for equality and freedom and who continue to fight for their rights".

Giacomo P.

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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852)

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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852)

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I’ve always been interested in Ada Lovelace, child of famed poet Lord Byron. She studied Maths and science: an unusual upbringing for an aristocratic girl in the 1800s. Young Ada got a chance to meet Charles Babbage, a mathematician and inventor known as the father of the computer, who created plans for two machines which was meant to perform complex mathematical calculations: she looked at the plans of those engines and added notes describing how codes could be created for the devices to handle letters and symbols along with numbers. She also theorized a method for the engines to repeat a series of instructions: it was the first algorithm encoded to be processed by a machine. Though Babbage’s machines was never built, Lovelace’s notes are important in the early history of computers: she realized that computers would be able to do more than just make complex calculations. Lovelace’s contribution to the field of computer science were not discovered until the 1950s; since then, Ada is considered to be the first computer programmer and has received many posthumous honors for her work. In 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense named a newly developed computer language “ADA”, after Lovelace.

Raffaella O.

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In this day I want to celebrate women who live in countries where they don't have no rights and no freedom, but they struggle to get them, even at the cost of they life. I want to remind also the story of African girls kidnapped and raped by stupid indoctrinated males, that trampled them right and freedom. But these girls survived miraculously and they still fight with courage and dignity for their rights. They are real heroines!

Marcella

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She changed the history of Italy by affirming the right of women to decide their own future.  In 1965, in Sicily, sixteen-year-old FRANCA VIOLA suffered abuse that was not uncommon in those days.  she was kidnapped and raped by the man she had rejected. Franca, with great courage, did not accept the shotgun marriage as it was foreseen by the law and the way of thinking of the people. she forced people to a great reflection.  If that law and that way of thinking no longer exist it's because FRANCA VIOLA said NO !!!!!  In 1965 I was living in Sicily and I was 15 years old.

Calogero

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My admiration goes to the uncountable normal people who live a normal life. Expecially this is for me to be heroes.
This is the story of all those women who, during World War Two, worked in industries in the places of men, knowing that they will be laid off at their return. They lived alone with their children and elderly. Often they even have to buy food in the countryside because there isn't any in the cities.
It is them who ran the country during the war.
They all have strength, courage and dignity.
Bibliography : PANE NERO di Miriam Mafai

Silvia C.

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She was born in 1918 at the end of the war, to parents poor in money and rich in children.
she was humble, silent and sweet without much fuss and she loved reading very much.
she smelled good of clean things and homemade cakes.

she was my mother

Hi mom, I miss you so much

Maria P.

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Today is 8th March, I would like to remember my mother, because she was a simple person, polite and a big heart.
Daniela R.

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In the Women's day , I would like to  remember an extraordinary  woman, Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She was born on August  26, 1910 and she died in Calcuta on September 5, 1997. That exceptional woman dedicated all his life with love, passion and respect  and above all to help poor people of Calcutta. Later she extended her mission beyond the borders of the India. I think that it would be very important to continue  her mission, it's worthy of admiration and respect. Moreover, she lefts us a profound sign of immortality in this World. Above all she is a great example to follow.

Nube

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I thought a lot about which woman is important to me and then I decided to talk about my mother. She didn't have great qualifications, but she was an intelligent, practical and determined woman who since childhood (she remained orphan from her father when she was still quite young) fought and helped her mother and younger brothers. Although I am an only child, she has never been a "tender" mother: strict and not very expansive, but always present, she tried to direct me toward the right path and it is thanks to her that I managed to reach some goals. In the last period of her life she was also a great help for my children whom she followed with love but at the same time "steady wrist", so much so she was also praised by my husband, despite being the mother-in-law...
Ada

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I would like to dedicate these few lines to all those unknown women that have lived, in silence, with a controlling father before and then with the husband, undergoing physical and psychological violence.
Unfortunately, violence against women is continuing again, but today, women can stand up and report to
the police. At last!!!!
Carla Cas.

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To celebrate 8th March, International Women's Day, I am pleased to write about MARISA BELLISARIO, an enterprising woman who was not afraid of challenges. Her abilities and competences, combined with the experience

gained at an international level, led her to direct, in 1979, the Olivetti Corporation of America as President.

She came back to Italy in 1981 as CEO of ITALTEL, a colossus of 30000 employees in phase of acute regression. Everyone was skeptical of his renovation plan. Marisa had to make bold and forward-looking choices. In three years she managed to transform a complex of factories to be scrapped, into an electronic, modern, dynamic and avant-garde Company. In fact ITALTEL had a positive balance again, with income of 1,300 billion of lire. In 1986, with this undisputed success, she won the "Manager of the Year" award.

The rise of MARISA BELLISARIO would have reached heights unthinkable for a woman if an irreversible disease hadn't taken her away on a sultry afternoon of 4th August 1988.

Confident and proud of her femininity, she was appreciated, esteemed by the CEOs of the largest International Companies, politicians, trade-unions, workers and employees.

MARISA leaves a mark on everyone, even and above all on women. For them she represents an innovative example and also sends this  powerful message: "...every woman, if determined and courageous, able to dare and  pursue her own ambitions, will be able to reach any goal in life as in work "

The President of the Republic Mister Cossiga said that "....Marisa Belisario's commitment was and will be, for the history of women, the symbol of the AFFIRMATION of EQUALITY between men and women.

Through the MARISA  BELLISARIO Foundation each year a prize is awarded to WOMEN who have distinguished themselves in their professions inspired by HER OWN IDEALS

Gabriella

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I want to celebrate Hypatia, an extraordinary woman who lived among the fourth and fifth century b.C., in Alexandria of Egypt . She  was a mathematician, an astronomer and a  philosopher. Hypatia taught at Newplatonic school and  she was very appreciated,  but she was killed by a group of fanatic men because she defended the liberty of thought and opinion about everything, also religion.

Isabella

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I don't love woman's day. Today, i think, it is a politically correct custom.
I hope that in the future every day is for women and men, without any difference.

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During my journey in Phon Penh few years ago I visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: a high school transformed by Red Khmer into a place of torture: the infamous S-21.

Among the many stories told, emerges that of Hout Bophana.

At the age of 16 she felt in love with Ly Sitha. Just before the wedding, Cambogia sank into the bad dream. They were separated.

Bophana Was raped, she became a mother and was forced to work.

They looked for each other, they met several time, but they made the mistake of writing themselves.

The letters were accidentally intercepted.

Ly Sitha was executed because of that .

Bophana was brutally tortured for five months, killed and thrown into the common grave. Se was 25 years old and she was guilty to be a strong, indipendent women who loved a man.

Her story is told in the books by Elisabeth Becher: "Bophana" and "When the war is over" and on the film of Rithy Panth: "A Cambodian tragedy".

A CRUSHED FLOWER was her signature on the letters of love.

Annalisa B.

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Rosa Parks is an activist for the civil rights movement . In 1955 she attended a center for human rights and racial equality. She was the first woman who refused to give a place to a white man. Ghisa day is very important for the city of Montgomery. For this fact the United State Supreme Court declared racial segregation outlaw on public transport as unconstitutional.

Lucia B.

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I wish to express my thoughts towards all the women of the world
Mothers, daughters, girls, grandmothers, women who suffer, important women, women who don't know each other, women who fight a battle every day, women who give history their study, their tenacity, their devotion, women who paid with their lives.

To my friends , to those who love me
TO MY MOTHER

MARITZA58

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ALSO KNOWN SIMPLY AS “MADEMOISELLE”, GABRIELLE CHANEL, ALIAS COCO, CHANGED THE WOMEN’S DRESS CODE.

HER FASHION STYLE IS STILL RELEVANT TODAY; HER SUITS, HER BICOLOR SHOES WITH BLACK TOE, THE BIJOUX PEARL NECKLACES

BUT OVERALL THE SHOULDER BAG WITH CHAIN ARE THE DREAM OF A LOT OF WOMEN. ALSO MINE.

Elda

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In a world governed by values like money and power and where too many people think only of themselves, there lived a little woman. She gave up her quiet life to go out on the streets to serve the least: poor, sick, disabled people etc.. Her heart was immense to love each person.
A great example of goodness. She said: you can find Calcutta everywhere in the world if you have got eyes to see!
Lisa

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Rosa Parks was born in Alabama on February 1913 and she was an African American woman.  In 1955 she was on a bus in Montgomery after the work. She disobeyed a bus driver who ordered her to give her seat to a white passenger. The bus driver called the police and she was arrested and the Montgomery bus boycott began. African Americans boycotted public buses for over a year. The protest only ended when racial segregation on buses stopped in 1956. This was the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.                                                                                Rosa Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation and a civil rights leader. She received national recognition, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died on October 2005 in Detroit at the age of 92.

Giorgio D.