ITALY Magazine Celebrates the Success of Italian Women
Carolina Kostner - Bronze medal in the Olympic women's figure skating. She finally broke her streak of bad luck at the Olympic games winning her first Olympic medal in Sochi
Laura Pausini - She is celebrating twenty years of career with a world tour and in January she was the first Italian woman with more than 1 million followers on twitter.
Raffaella De Vita - Director of Virginia Tech's Mechanics, awarded the USA highest honor, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists & Engineers, for her research on pelvic floor disorders.
Sabrina Ferilli - She played the female lead opposite Toni Servillo in the Oscar winning film 'The Great Beauty' by Paolo Sorrentino.
Samantha Cristoforetti - She is the third woman astronaut in the European Space Agency and the first Italian woman astronaut. On November 2014 she will go on a mission on the International Space Station for about 6 month.
Sonia Alfano - MEP and Chair of the European Parliament's Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering (CRIM).
Nadia Santini - Head chef at three Michelin star restaurant Dal Pescatore in Mantova; she was named World’s Best Female Chef in 2013.
Serena Dandini - She is the author and director of 'Wounded to Death', a theatrical project about feminicide. She brought her show to many theatres around the world and to the United Nations Headquarters.
Lucia Annibali - She is a lawyer who was attacked in 2013 with acid by two hitmen hired by her ex-boyfriend. Despite her injuries, she managed to call for help and report it to the police. She was given the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Arianna Fontana - Speed skater and star of the Azzurri's Sochi team, she won two individual medals, bronze in the 1,500-metres and silver in the 500m, and helped Italy come third in the women's 3,000m relay event.
To celebrate La Festa della Donna, International Women's Day, we share with you the names and pictures of ten Italian women who made the headlines over the past few months and can represent Italian women, their hard work, their resilience, their sense of justice, their dreams!
