“Lawyer and engineer? Keep your vowels and pay women the same as men,” Ambra Angiolini said in her speech at the May 1 concert. Many professionals enrolled in the Architecture and Engineering Registry don’t think like the former X Factor judge, and today they’re celebrating a milestone. fight for gender equality. Really for the first time The Order of Engineers introduced into production an official stamp with the name of the profession, inflected in the feminine.. An engineer, not an engineer. A vowel that expresses all the desire for profound change, already recorded on paper by the Dictionary of the Accademia della Crusca and now finally recognized also at the legal level.
For the first time, engineer Sofia Fantini stated this. Born in 1993, he contacted the Order for three years to recognize the validity of the first seal of his own production with the words “Engineer”. The first unsuccessful request dates back to 2020. Hence the intuition to contact the association RebelArchitette, which since 2017 has been involved in visibility and awareness initiatives on the issue of gender equality in the world of work and which has recently achieved the introduction of the Stamp “architect” in all Orders of Architects in Italy , a reform that began in Bergamo and is now supported by 72% of the members of 42 orders.
The contribution of this team of professionals, coordinated by the architect Cinzia Bigoni, was fundamental for Fantini, who in 2021 sent a new reminder to the Order, which, two years later, finally answered and ratified the request, allowing the choice of a request for a female seal. free of charge and completely subjective on the part of the participants. If for many the formalization of women’s titles remains a purely symbolic battle, then for many feminist associations it represents a concrete sign of greater female representation in professions that were once exclusively the domain of men.
Known is the case of Lydia Poet, a brilliant law student who graduated with honors in 1883, the first woman in Italy to be trained, but her application for enrollment in the Register was rejected because “lawyership is a position that can be held only men and in which women should not interfere.” If today this is no longer the case, it is also due to the change in the vowel. This is not about a quixotic struggle with windmills, but about the battle of civilizations, because this word reflects our categories of thinking.. “Wish,” comments Republic President Francesca Perani is that other orders are adapting to the initiative, not only those belonging to the world of engineering and architecture, but all those that still do not provide for the inclination of women to facilitate new generations of professionals “.
Source: Elle