“Italian women remain a symbol of excellence, creating business and distinguishing themselves in studies and research. Female work is decisive for the economic development of a country. Women as a reservoir of “wisdom, generosity, aptitude to blunt conflict and to reject violence”. This is why more effort is needed to “promote women’s work and participation in all sectors. We must guarantee women full compatibility between family care, which is an essential function for the orderly development of a country, and professional activity “.

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SAMANTHA CRISTOFORETTI, FIRST ITALIAN WOMAN TO GO BETWEEN THE STARS
The astronaut spent almost 200 days on board the International Space Station, setting the Eu­ropean record and the female record of space permanence. Samantha started on November 23, 2014, with the Soyuz spacecraft, from the Baikonour cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, with her mission companions, Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts. She conducted dozens of phys­ics and medical experiments, even made 3D objects and studied the reactions of liquids at high temperatures and pressures with the space coffee machine, “Isspresso”. On July 20, 2015, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarel­la, awarded her with the honor of Knight of the Grand Cross, the highest in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

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LIFE AMONG THE STARS
In 2013 all of Italy mourned the loss of Margherita Hack, the ‘lady of the stars.’ Born in Florence, she was considered one of the most important Italian astrophysicists in history, but is remembered above all as the first woman to administer an astronomical observatory in Italy. A member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the International Astronomical Union, and the Royal Astronomical Society, during her long career she made great contributions to the research and study of the spectral classification of many categories of stars

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SOFIA LOREN, A TIMELESS ACTRESS
Even well beyond middle age, Sofia Loren is still considered an Italian film legend, idolized and admired the world over. Over the course of her extraordinarily long and fruitful career, she has appeared in over ninety films and worked with some of the most famous international celebrities: from Marlon Brando to Mario Monicelli,from Ettore Scola to Marcello Mastroianni.
She has received awards and acknowledgements both within Italy and abroad (having also worked in Hollywood for some years), most notably the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in the film ‘Two Women’ (La Ciociara) by Vittorio De Sica, a role that was turned down by Anna Magnani.
She is not only an actress but a timeless beauty, having even posed for the 2007 edition of the famous Pirelli Agenda

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NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE
Rita Levi Montalcini is the only Italian woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine, awarded to her in 1986 together with her American colleague, Stanley Cohen In 1969 she left the United States and moved to Italy permanently, where she directed the Research Center of Neurobiology of the CNR, to which she dedicated a substantial portion of her life. In 2002 she founded the European Brain Research Institute (EBRI), an international research center dedicated completely to the study of neuroscience.

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LAURA PAUSINI, AN AMBASSADOR… OF MUSIC!
Laura Pausini began her career in 1992 when, not yet twenty years old, she won the Sanremo Festival with her song ‘La solitudine.’ Thanks to her remarkable voice, both strong and warm, critics have compared her to great musical artists like Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, and Barbra Streisand. Over the course of her twenty-year long career she has sold fifty million records, including CDs, DVDs, and singles and has been awarded prestigious awards including one Grammy Award and three Latin Grammy Awards.

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GRAZIA DELEDDA, NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
A native of Nuoro and the youngest of six children, Grazia Deledda was just 21 years old when she wrote her first novel, ‘Fior di Sardegna’ (1892). Her most famous novel is ‘Canne al Vento’ (1913), which, set in the barren land of Sardinia, deals with issues of poverty, honor, and profound superstition. Thanks to her literary contribution – published in every language – she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.

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FEDERICA PELLEGRINI, RECORD BREAKING “MERMAID”
Although very young, Federica Pellegrini will al­ready be remembered not only in the history of Italian swimming, but in the history of worldwide Olympic swimming. An infinite career, which be­gan at great levels in 2004 with the silver con­quered at 16 years at the Athens Olympics in the 200 style, continued with one success after another and 25 golds. 2018 ends with impressive feat: on the last day of the World Championships in a short tank in China, the Venetian swimmer won the bronze medal of the mixed 4 × 100. The Chinese podium holding a special meaning, be­ing the 50th medal in Pellegrini’s career.

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MARIA MONTESSORI, A WOMAN WHO CREATED A NEW SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
The first Italian woman to earn a degree in medicine and known for her constant work on behalf of handicapped children. In1906 she founded the ‘Children’s House’ and began her educational work in one of Rome’s working class neighborhoods. It was here that the socalled ‘Montessori method’ was applied for the first time, based on the fundamental principle that a
child already has the seed of his or her personality within: the adult, therefore, must only encourage it grow.

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BEBE, A TRUE CHAMPION, IN SPORTS AND IN LIFE
Beatrice Maria Adelaide Marzia Vio, called Bebe, is an extraordinary girl who keeps all the freshness of her twenty-two years, and has learned to face the vicissitudes of life with a smile on her lips. Bebe is an Italian fencer, Paralympic world and European champion in the individual foil category, she is among the most famous and loved at international level. Her sporting triumphs are known to all, but what most underlines her is her incredible personality which, combined with a good dose of courage and thanks to her determination, is today the first fencer to compete with prostheses for all four the limbs because of the meningitis that struck her in 2008, seriously endangering her life.

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