Of the 556 people elected to the Constituent Assembly in Italy in June 1946, 21 women, diverse in terms of age, experience, ideals, and political culture, were among them. In that context, this 'group' felt the responsibility and took the opportunity to express a unified voice - in the name of equal rights - in some crucial areas: education, family, work. This paper analyses their contribution on the issue of equal rights at work. With their action, women are trying to obtain new spaces and enter those hitherto precluded to them: in politics, in productive activities, in institutions. A further crucial topic, briefly discussed here, is the fate that women’s demands in labour related topics have in the proposals of the CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) in its unified phase.
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8910-9632
Chapter Title
535 a 21. Genere e lavoro alla Costituente
Authors
Claudia Rotondi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0775-1.04
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Book Title
L’Italia repubblicana in cammino
Book Subtitle
Ricostruzione, crescita, instabilità
Editors
Piero Bini, Antonio Magliulo, Letizia Pagliai
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
264
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0775-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0774-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0775-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0776-8
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919