Donatella Bianchi, president of WWF Italy and well-known television presenter, joins Vittorio Colao's task force. The journalist at the head of the environmental organization is one of the five women announced by Giuseppe Conte called to collaborate with the structure for the management of the coronavirus emergency. The shortage of women from the manager-led organization had relieved endless controversy. The appeal of 16 female senators - "Give us a voice" - had placed the need for greater gender balance within the group in charge of restarting Italy. The prime minister says he is satisfied with the increase in the female quota which goes from four to nine. He subtly conciliatory words to contain a little criticism of the whole team for efficiency, timing and quality of its work.
The name of Donatella Bianchi in fact opens up to the contribution of the ecological world, careful to evaluate the effects of the decisions of the task force. Every economic activity has effects on the habitat and on social dynamics. If so far the containment measures have not been studied in depth, the wealth of knowledge of an organization such as the WWF will have to assert itself. The other four women indicated by the Prime Minister are: Enrica Amaturo, professor of sociology at the University of Naples Federico II; Marina Calloni, professor of political and social philosophy at the University of Milano-Bicocca and founder of the university center ADV – Against Domestic Violence; Linda Laura Sabbadini, central director of Istat e Maurizia Iachino, entrepreneur. Basically, the four teachers integrate skills already present in the first training, while that of Bianchi will be alongside that of Enrico Giovannini, spokesman for the Association for sustainable development.
But women integrate also the Scientific Technical Committee, which assists the head of the Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli. Six professionals to broaden your operational horizon. They are: Kyriakoula Petropulocos, director general of Personal Care and Welfare of the Emilia Romagna Region; Giovannella Baggio, full professor of internal medicine and holder of the first chair of gender medicine in Italy, also president of the National Study Center of Health and Gender Medicine; Nausicaa Orlandi, President of the National Federation of chemists and physicists and occupational safety expert; Elisabetta Dejana, biologist at the head of the angiogenesis program at the Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan; Rosa Marina Melillo, professor of General Pathology at the Federico II University of Naples and Flavia Petrini, professor of Anesthesiology at the G. D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and director of intensive care at the Santissima Annunziata Hospital in Chieti.
Two enlarged teams, in short, to stop the controversy over the male-female "holding" of the main structures that accompany the (not easy, often unclear) decisions of the government. It would, however, be wrong now to expect miracles on theacceleration of the work of the task force. The issue is more complex, as can also be deduced from the many requests for access to the minutes of the meetings. “It is the first step towards the future. Equal attendance is not a concession. Their professionalism is decisive for the country,” said Giuseppe Conte. But what interests Italians is the ability to give clear and coherent solutions to problems. Without distinction of gender on the part of those who prepare them.
