This article is published in number 14 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until April 6, 2021
Until recently, I too believed that the pink quotas were an insult to female intelligence. Then I changed my mind, because I realized that only laws can really change something. I understood that we need to have a secular and pragmatic approach to this matter. As when the law on the ban on smoking in public places was approved. It seemed impossible, yet now it would seem unthinkable to us to watch a movie at the cinema (ok, I know, but we’ll be back) or have dinner (ok, ok, I know) in a smoke-filled place.
The issue of women’s quotas must be addressed with the same pragmatism. Maybe calling it by another name: parity, for example. Only in this way, with laws that impose real equality, can things be changed.
Until recently I too was accustomed to the sound of certain words and having me call, for example, director, seemed to me to sound less authoritative. Then I realized it was just a habit. And that it is right to speak of directors, ministers, mayors, architects, because changing words also means changing the way of thinking. For many years I thought that my mother, who complained that she was too busy, liked to be the victim. Over time I realized that she had really too much to do (she was a teacher and also took care of everything related to the house and the daughters while my father only took care of his work) and that he was really a victim. Even today, even to many intelligent and educated people, it is not clear enough that the female question is not a secondary issue or a fashion, but it is the primary question on which the future of society and humanity is at stake, as much as it is. the environmental one. I understand that we may not have it clear yet, for many reasons: distraction, privilege, habit. But, despite having always been a person full of doubts, I no longer have any on this matter: without a consciously feminist and environmentalist vision of the future we are completely screwed.
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