Lorella Zanardo has spent more than a decade educating girls and young women about women's rights. We had [centre-left Matteo] Renzi who put a lot women, young women, in the government," says Zanardo. (CBC)Economist Elisabetta Addis with the University of Sassari says the low participation of Italian women in the workplace means that unlike in other Western countries, Italian women tend to vote much the same way the men in their lives do. In the smaller parties women are better represented. Viola Carfalo leads the small, newly formed Power to the People Party, the only one with more than 50 per cent female candidates.

Source: CBC News March 03, 2018 09:10 UTC