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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is with a great sense of pride that I bring to your attention the fact that, last Tuesday, my country finally enacted a law introducing quotas for women board members at listed companies and companies in which the state has a shareholding.
Unfortunately, at the moment, barely 4% of the board members in Italy are women. Other countries have already passed similar legislation and I hope many others will do so in the coming months. Capable and qualified women must be allowed to achieve professional growth in line with their male colleagues, demonstrating and exercising their capabilities. You know, holding a position due exclusively to merit and professionalism is surely more gratifying and less humiliating, but I am convinced that we have to carry out a true ‘pink revolution’ which has an ever growing female presence as its ultimate objective, without necessarily having to resort to quotas.
In future, due to our daily commitment, equal opportunity will not have to be recognised solely by law, but must represent an indefeasible value held by society, based not only on gender equality, but also on a genuine and inherent cultural equality."@en1
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