Italy celebrates Women’s Day today 8th March.
46.9% of Italian women are in employment compared to the European average of 58.8%. Only Malta is lower at 37.5%, while the Netherlands has 70%. The proportion of female company directors in Italy is in line with European averages at 32.9%.
According to European Parliament, the average quota of female MEPs is 31%, while Italy is near the bottom of the league at 16.7%, or 13 women out of 78 MEPs.
Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour. The Court of Cassation found that having a lover was a circumstance that damaged the honour of the woman among family and friends. Lying about it, therefore, was permitted, even in a judicial investigation. At present the ruling applies only to women.
The Court of Cassation, which is largely staffed by elderly male appeal judges, once ruled that a woman could not be raped if she was wearing tight jeans, since the jeans could only be removed with her consent.
One in three young Italian girls believe having sex while standing up or in water is effective in preventing unwanted pregnancy, the Italian Gynaecology and Obstetrics Society said. Other widespread misconceptions among Italian adolescents include the belief that it is impossible to get pregnant if it is the first time they have sex or if they do not have an orgasm, and that Coca Cola is an effective contraceptive douche, proving there is some useful purpose to the liquid.
One woman in three takes the contraceptive pill in the rest of Europe, but Italian women largely avoid it as they believe it is fattening.
For Women’s Day The National Feminist and Lesbian Assembly marched in Rome and 15 other large Italian cities to protest against violence towards women and recent public debate about the right to abortion.
Amongst regional initiatives planned, The Northern League will hand out pepper spray to women instead of the traditional mimosa, putting them at risk of arrest.
Milan's three-day pornography expo Mi-Sex, said it would honour women's ''special day'' with a guest appearance by retired superstud and world No.1 male hardcore star Rocco Siffredi.
In other news,
Several MPs are believed to be among the 400 names of Liechtenstein account holders on a list bought by Italian Tax authorities from Britain.
Milan is staging an exhibition of noise (scarcely necessary in Italy) which includes A Laugh Will Bury You (2005) by Lara Favaretto, where a small resin box on the floor continuously emits a loud high pitched laugh.
Despite boasting such landmarks as the Colosseum and St. Peter's, Rome is only the fifth most recognizable city in the world, according to the latest City Brand Index. Sydney is first.
Fewer than half of Italian families own a computer
An 80-year Ferrara woman was denied a national health card because, according to health officials, she had been dead since January 1, 1983.
100 Italian towns have bike sharing schemes in place, where you can borrow a bike free at one point and deposit it at another
After a series of episodes involving bullying and vandalism a school in Trento is inviting the parents of rowdy children to sit in on first-year lessons for a few hours each day. The school trains children to become accountants.
At a seminar following a survey showing that many homosexuals and divorcees felt unable to confess because priests spoke at them in apocalyptic tones, priests have been told they can deal with ''delusions, hysteria and other symptoms'' but when faced with ''possessions, obsessions and persecutions'' it is best to call an exorcist
Genova: The frustrated lover of an Italian man castrated him in a fit of rage sparked by his refusal to leave his wife, Italian police said.
In a separate case a woman from Parma, pretending to agree to make-up with her estranged husband and have sex, bit off a piece of his penis.
In an investigation of claims for EU funds for olive oil production, police have found false invoices amounting to some 40 million euros and sequestered 85 farms, 23 oil mills, three distribution companies, nine real-estate properties and scores of bank accounts.
Silvio Berlusconi is no longer Italy's richest man, according to Forbes’ List, having been overtaken by the owners of Ferrero Rocher chocolates and Luxottica sunglasses. Further down the list telecoms entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia, despite being worth $1.2bn, was only 962nd richest in the world.
Announcing her latest film L'Imbroglio del Lenzuolo (the trick with the sheet) Italian screen beauty Maria Grazia Cucinotta says her native Sicily, for all its faults, is Heaven on Earth. Her statement is being classed by the Church as ''delusions, hysteria and other symptoms''
In order to get to a TV appearance on time through Rome’s heavy traffic Senator Gustavo Selva, 81, feigned an illness and got an ambulance, giving the studio address as his doctor’s surgery. He has been given a six-month suspended sentence and fined 200 euros. He left court saying his conscience was clear.
Young scientists at Pisa University have created a computer model to forecast traffic congestion and make the city more liveable.
The majority of offenders in Italian juvenile detention centres are foreigners, according to The Justice Ministry.
More counterfeiting goes on in Italy than any other European country. The Bank of Italy last year discovered a total of 119,017 counterfeit euro notes to the value of 8.7 million euros, compared to 6.6 million euros in 2006.
The newly revived Alfa Romeo brand will return to the American market for the first time since 1995
New polls show Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party increasing its lead over the Democratic Party, with 45% of the vote. Walter Veltroni said Berlusconi had gone beyond ''delusions, hysteria and other symptoms'' and it was best to call an exorcist
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