Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb If you have any questions or need help you can email us The country has its first female leader and the highest number of women working in law in Europe Eleanor Longman-Rood The country boasts its first female leader and more women are forging successful careers According to figures from the Cassa Forennse the Italian state social protection body for law professionals Italy had 117,559 female lawyers admitted to the Bar Association in 2020 the highest total number of any European country the UK and Wales recorded the next highest number with 77,531 Italy has a long history of women in the legal profession The first woman to earn a law degree in Italy was Lidia Poët and she achieved that goal – remarkably – in 1881 just seven years after women were first accepted into Italian universities a concerning amount of women are trapped in the lower echelons of the professions while their male colleagues ascend the ranks around them Poët earned her law degree from the University of Turin and she wrote her thesis on women’s status in society and their right to the franchise she passed the equivalent of the Bar examination and was admitted to the Order of Lawyers and Prosecutors of Turin by 45 votes to 50 The attorney general did not approve of Poët’s success In a struggle portrayed by Matilda De Angelis in the new Netflix series he lodged a complaint with Turin’s Court of Appeals which was upheld while not technically permitted to practice law Poët continued her legal work in her brother According to a study completed in 2017 by the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs women are constantly pushed into these “invisible background roles” within law firms across Europe women also represent the “working class” level of the legal services market their opportunities for promotion can be limited to the lower echelons of the professional hierarchy a leading corporate lawyer and partner at the law firm LCA tells me that according to the EU Justice Scoreboard 2022 it has the highest number of lawyers in Europe “When analysing data on partners or senior roles in law firms there are far fewer women than men,” she says De Muro is also head of the Italian Association of Law Partnerships Women (ASLA Women) a working group that aims to improve the prospects of women in the Italian legal profession the group found that a mere 20% of equity partners are women When it comes to partners who bear no risk in 2018 female lawyers earned less than half that of their male counterparts It is a divide that occurs across the country although it is more prominent in the older generations and is not affected by a woman’s decision to have children Data from a 2022 report by the Italian Center for Social and Economic Research shows a significant income gap “Even today the difference in average income between a man and a woman is so stark that you must add the income of two women to match the income of a male colleague,” Francesca Bodo Corona leading criminal lawyer and founding partner of the Avvocati 10100 Torino law firm the 2017 study from the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs found that women often opt for areas of law that are less profitable Wilma Viscardini doesn’t want to be called a feminist The senior partner and founder of the Donà Viscardini law firm prefers avvocato – with the male ending claiming it is not taken as seriously as the masculine version avvocata emphasises her gender more than the fact that she is an attorney explaining that not only is highlighting her gender significant but essential in recognising the existence of women working in the profession somebody asks me which I prefer to be called,” Bodo Corona explains these enquiries often are not limited to avvocato and avvocata the Italian term referring to a university graduate Bodo Corona enrolled at the University of Turin’s law school with two very clear ideas One – she would become the first lawyer in her family; and two – she would specialise in criminal law dropping just two marks in her thesis on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the massacres in Guatemala Bodo Corona was subsequently enrolled on the province’s Bar Association in 2013 as a criminal barrister she soon realised how rife sexism and misogyny were in the legal world Bodo Corona found clients were deterred by her gender rather than impressed by her years of legal experience after escorting a potential client to the conference room a male client decided only to engage her services upon learning from the law firm’s website that she would have male colleagues to guide her decision-making “I and one other female colleague have gone on to win three cases for him.” When she first began her time as a lawyer de Muro faced the same objection from a male client suggested the client reexamine his thinking leaving him no choice but to engage her services changed his mind immediately about women lawyers,” she says This hasn’t always been the case for Bodo Corona while I was chatting with a peer in the courthouse’s hallway we noticed a pregnant colleague entering the courtroom a bit out of breath ‘When a woman decides to give birth to children she must understand that she cannot be a lawyer,’ he said to me Perhaps he forgot I had two small children,” she says “Colleagues still maintain today that the legal profession is not a woman’s affair and that my energies expended in this field are inappropriate An older colleague told me exactly that seven years ago,” Bodo Corona says She was the city of Rovigo’s first female lawyer she began her legal training at a small firm in her hometown before going on to later pass the Bar exam my success was due to the novelty of being a woman,” she says She may well have remained a provincial lawyer not drawn her attention to the new field of law at the European level When the European Commission was founded in 1958 she was able to apply for a legal advisor role “Even at the European Union institutions,” she explains “there was some resistance and scepticism to accepting women into roles that had historically been held by men only I had to make do with a position in the Department of Statistics.” Thanks to her perseverance she was later accepted into the Legal Service of the Commission as a lawyer and she vividly remembers her welcome by the Director General: “You are the first woman it will depend on you whether there will be a second” She would go on to be the first female attorney to present a defence of the Commission before the Court of Justice and spent the remainder of her time there working for the Commission in Brussels as the European Economic Community (now European Union) was developed much to her frustration it appeared her years in Brussels and Luxembourg were lightyears away from national realities Viscardini got to work on the case of Donà v Mantero “Hardly anyone had realised that there was now a new system,” she explains there were no EU law courses in Italy so judges and lawyers were unaware that they could draw upon this in their judgements one woman transformed how European law was used in Italy Italian football clubs did not perform well in European competitions winning only two of the 29 major European trophies on offer during the decade No Italian team won the European Cup (now known as the Champions League) “The managers of the major teams attributed this lack of success to the autocratic policies which dictated that only Italian citizens could play in Italian teams,” says Viscardini she was approached by a major club manager inquiring about the possibility of hiring foreign footballers if they were hiring from another member state the principle of free movement of workers should permit this Failing to convince the manager to take legal action she resorted to doing so herself and the case of Donà v Mantero began; Dona being her husband the manager of the Rovigo football club that played in a minor league “Donà first looked for a Belgian player willing to transfer to Rovigo’s team,” she tells me They then placed a successful advertisement in a Belgian newspaper looking for foreign players “Mantero refused to hire the player or reimburse the expenses on the pretext that he did not believe this was legally possible sued Mantero before the competent national court,” continues Viscardini The court asked the European Court if European law should be interpreted to mean that professional footballers were permitted to work anywhere within the community and they responded that it should “The “Donà/Mantero” ruling of 1976 thus opened the borders to European Community football players,” says Viscardini a third-year law student at the University of Turin specialising in EU and international law can’t see how Poët is remembered at her university at all I have not heard anyone mention her name or discuss her achievements not before the recent announcement of the Netflix series about her life.” Moreover her legal heroes stretch far beyond Italy’s borders citing names such as former supreme court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as reported by the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs men still made up 60% of Italian public prosecutors (in first instance courts) which is perhaps a cultural problem – the division of male and female roles in the family realm disrupts workplace promotion the debate over the place of Italian women in the law – and in the workplace in general – should be concerned with “professional expertise” and “self-awareness” rather than simply gender inequality That cancels out all our differences and stereotypes.” If you have any questions or need help you can email us. 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