September 2016
Monthly Newsletter of the Professional Women’s Association of Rome Celebrating our Silver Jubilee Anniversary
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Hanna Suni
The North Star
PWA is an international hub in the heart of Rome where ideas and values, tradition and innovation, diversity, culture and professionalism meet and intersect. On our journey into the future our travel companions are respect, ethics, and a sense of social responsibility. This year we celebrate our 25th Jubilee Anniversary with Inclusion theme.
She believed that she could so she did. I came across this simple phrase in cyberspace last week and it hit me like a train - or rather, a spaceship. It reminded me of the fact that we − regardless of gender, race, religion or other factor that might make us seem different or less adequate − can do and achieve anything we want, if only we have faith in ourselves and our skills. The fact the phrase talks about her is crucial and I believe it was written for a purpose. Often we women are too humble and modest, we do not believe in ourselves, our capabilities and talents. We step aside, leave the battle field − or worse yet, do not even enter − and tend to belittle ourselves and other women, rather than praise, encourage and empower. The truth is, though, there are women Presidents of nations, Prime Ministers and Chancellors, CEOs of important corporations, athletes, scientists, priests and astronauts. No physical restraint holds us back, but rather our brains, muscles and talents, if cultivated and encouraged, can reach the same results, or at times even better results, than our male companions can. The key to success is to BELIEVE and carry on full speed. PWA is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an outstanding theme − INCLUSION. We will look at the topic from different angles and talk about the inclusion of women, immigrants, disabled people, individuals coming from a different religious or political background and people with all types of sexual orientations. This month we are looking at gender inclusion and our guest speaker, Corrado Sterpetti, will talk about how women themselves can promote their inclusion at the workplace. I am curious to hear what he has to say, but I am fairly sure about one thing: It all starts by believing in ourselves. Hanna
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Hanna Suni editor and layout designer www.hamedesign.com newslettereditor@pwarome.org
in this issue
4 Through the Looking Glass 6 Let's Promote Inclusion
8 Member Spotlight: Woman of the Year Hanna Suni - The North Star
10 PWA Jubilee Year: Great Expectations
12 June Wrap-up: Unplugged Summer Party
14 Photo Recap: September ConneXion and MOB Programming
16 Let's Go Social: Do Social Media Platforms Promote Social Inclusion? 17 PWA Jubilee Year: Event Program, Save the Dates
18 Cultural Corner: The Gender Gap in the Art World 19 Women and Words 20 Classified
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PWA SEPTEMBER Conference
Through the looking glass
Perception vs. Reality Women “Take Care,” Men “Take Charge” reveals that exposure to women leaders doesn’t necessarily lessen stereotyping; often, it reinforces it, creating “extreme perceptions” of women leaders. How do behaviors and attitudes of each gender affect roles and norms? There are many more similarities than differences between women and men in organizational settings. Yet it’s what you don’t see and hear that often counts in the workplace. Most people are not aware of how stereotyping automatically influences their thinking and, therefore, believe that their perceptions are based on objective observations. By shining a spotlight on this often unspoken and insidious barrier to women’s advancement, we can see how genderbased stereotyping often operates as shorthand for fact and shortchanges women in the workplace. PWA’s September Conference: “Through the looking glass” or women seen through the eyes of men reveals what men see as advantages, disadvantages and what women can do to improve their standing in the workplace.
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CORRaDO STERPETTI Dr. Corrado Sterpetti is the Vice President and General Manager at Hewlett Packard South Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has a undergraduate degree from Luiss University and an MBA from Bocconi University. He has over 20 years experience in working for international high-tech companies such as Ariba, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Quest Software.
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WHAT CAN WE DO TO PROMOTE GREATER INCLUSION?
Not just by gender or race or sexual orientation, but including those with other abilities, cultural references, or current life states that may differ from our own? Here are a few good places to start…
WIN CONFERENCE 2016 - Returning to Rome, join 1000 delegates from dozens of countries, companies, NGOs, coaches & mid-career… As we look toward Leading the Way with Beauty, Connection & Confidence. With an impressive panel of speakers from all walks of life, diversity & inclusion are *definitely* on the agenda. And of course, your male colleagues are welcome to join us on this path. Sept 28-30 (+Oct 1) • Global Leadership Forum
This summer, we hosted two amazing boys at our Teen Success Summit in Vetralla whose odyssey began with a family of 6 in Libya. Through Italy, they crossed all of Europe to Sweden, only to be returned to Rome a year later. Through the help of volunteers at BAOBAB and Don Marco, sponsors were found to help support the kids’ education, people of all faiths opened their doors. Here’s the video of how many lives can be so positively touched when we work - together.
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VoiceAmerica Business Channel host Cheryl Esposito has been bringing thought leaders, innovators and inspiring guests to the forefront of her program, Leading Conversations. Start with this episode featuring The Bond Between Us - Delving into what happens to humanity when we truly cooperate…but peruse her archives for amazing insights and more! Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is CEO of 20-first, one of the world's leading gender consultancies, helping global companies build gender balanced businesses. A frequent presenter at WINConference, her most recent book is SEVEN STEPS to Leading a Gender-Balanced Business (Harvard Business Review, 2014). Her other bestselling books are HOW Women Mean Business (Wiley, April 2010) and WHY Women Mean Business (Wiley 2009), named Business Book of the Year by the Conference Board in 2009. She was also named by ELLE magazine as one of the TOP 40 Women Leading Change.
The documentary Life, Animated was recently released. It stems from an article penned by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind with his son Owen who has autism and how he brought him out through Disney characters.
Look around you. Everyone has a reason to be included. As the US enters the final stretches to a bizarre political process… Let’s give Bill Clinton the last word: We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
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WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Hanna Suni
The North Star
By Valerie Baxter, President
t’s 10 in the morning on a July Saturday morning and already since 7 Hanna Suni has been out to the forest in her native Finland, jogging and picking blueberries and mushrooms. She’s on holiday, oblivious of schedules, absorbing nature at its richest.
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Eldest of 4 children, with two younger sisters and a brother born 14 years after her, Hanna always felt responsibility as a caretaker to her siblings. Putting others’ needs before her own, even with a happy, carefree childhood, she never experienced the luxury of just going with the flow. Both parents have degrees in economics and Hanna felt she was expected, like her family, to follow suit. Encouraged to do her best, helped with science and math by mom, languages and history by dad, swatting for exams learning everything by heart to obtain the highest marks in school, Hanna earned appreciation through a point system set up by dad for helping round the house. With a typical Finnish Lutheran upbringing Hanna felt the need to work hard, be efficient, prove herself to be a good person. In short, she had to give her best, achieve her best with a high bar set by her father as he set “dag’s värk − today’s work” − even when relaxing on holiday!
As a youngster, Hanna studied four languages besides her own: English, Swedish, German and Russian. In Finland, it is customary to get a university degree in law, medicine, economics or political science and Hanna embarked on an M.Sc. in Economics in Helsinki, as it felt like the safest, easiest and most workguaranteed future. But after her first year, uninterested as her lower marks showed, she began to doubt her choice. She ended up choosing Finnish Language and Communication as her major in order to follow her passion for writing, studying oral communication and language. «I am more of a listener than a speaker and whilst naturally curious, I prefer to keep my opinions to myself, often considering my background information insufficient to voice my opinions», Hanna says. Family ties are part of Hanna’s DNA. Last February, Hanna’s grandmother − her North Star − died at the age of 93, and Hanna, whilst farthest geographically, was the closest among twelve grandchildren. Hanna intends to pass on to her own two sons the compassion and caring fostered by her grandmother. She acknowledges how privileged she has been in her family, admittedly earned with hard work, but believes it is also a heavy burden. Today, influenced not only by Lutheran but also Catholic doctrine, with her own offspring she strives to be humble and tolerant, considering following one’s passion more important than a university degree. Money is not important if you’re doing what you love.«If you desire to be an artist − do everything in your power to become one», she says.
From left: Hanna with husband Edmondo and sons Matteo and Alessio in May 2015 Hanna with late grandmother Aino and sons in July 2015 Skating with father Tapani and sister Laura in December 2015
Music has always held Hanna in awe. Hanna has played the piano and sung in choirs of different orientation all over the world, from gospel to jazz. She recently took up playing the cello. Jogging, aerobics, tennis and winter sports such as skiing and skating are also an important way for her to vent off steam and keep her body and mind in harmony. Hanna has learnt a lot from the choices she has made, such as working during school holidays at age 13 in her father’s supermarket − from shelf-filling to sales, through to accountancy; as a journalist for a Helsinki Telecommunications journal; then teaching business communication to over 80 students at the Helsinki School of Economics at only 24 years old. Her humble, authentic and enthusiastic approach to students older than herself earned her a thoughtful comment: I imagine your home is full of books and you’re always studying. In 1998 Hanna made more important choices for her future: a job interview for a communications career in Helsinki and a marriage with her first boyfriend, naively thinking she would live happily ever after in the land of the «Aurora Borealis*». But only a year afterwards, applying for a language program in Florence set her on a completely different path. With just a suitcase of clothes (which incidentally got lost) she realised she could do whatever she wanted! Left without even a toothbrush and just her handbag, the revelation of 2 hours’ of language study and then being free to wander and observe made her suddenly aware of how conditioned she had been until then. The moon actually moved in the sky! Her subsequent decision to divorce and marry her Italian love changed her life, as she moved to Milan to follow the Master of Publitalia with the promise of a job − but that was before the collapse of the twin towers. After a stage in WIND (Infostrada), and Vodafone she dropped everything and came to Rome with no home, no job, until The American
University of Rome secured her the non-academic happy medium of Student Life Coordinator for extra curricular activities such as sport, culture, housing and excursions. Later, as a mother Hanna was obliged to redefine her professional role. She negotiated herself a position in Admissions where interviews, campus visits, and production of commercial materials introduced her to a new profession: graphic design. Although not one of the 2% born artist population, she knew she could learn it and was encouraged to continue selfstudying online. 2011 marked another milestone as the work environment became competitive and discriminative and Hanna decided to resign. Her holistic decision to become an independent graphic designer with two children enabled her to thrive. She loves working on projects where she gets to apply her skills and passion for graphic and interior design, photography and art. Since 2013 Hanna has been an ardent member of PWA, not missing one event or initiative whether it be Footloose, IWD, mentoring programs or other learning opportunities. «For me the association is a driving force: a community where I can share, learn and thrive, just like in a workplace. PWA’s Mentoring program showed me how a large percentage of my clients originate from PWA, all stemming from positive word of mouth», Hanna says. Hanna feels that people often find excuses not to find their happiness and is convinced that to succeed you need to want your dream hard enough to actually reach it. «Spend time to find out what your passion is, be ready to work for it, sacrifice something if necessary and take your decisions, even if they’re difficult. After all, the most important thing in life is to be happy with what you do and who you are. Striving for your own happiness means being selfish sometimes, but it is only through your own well-being that you can give something to others».
Hanna Suni, Graphic designer & entrepreneur, Newsletter editor, PWA Board Member and Woman of the Year 2015/16 is also the North Star in PWA, a reference point inspiring those still seeking their passion. *In Finnish, the name for the aurora borealis is "Revontulet", which literally translated means "Fox Fires." The name comes from an ancient Finnish myth, a beast fable, in which the lights were caused by a magical fox sweeping his tail across the snow spraying it up into the sky.
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PWA Jubilee Great exp
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he new Board and Teams are invested with the arduous task of contributing their ideas to enrich our Silver Jubilee year. Agreed on the theme of Inclusion, the various team members set to work during the summer to devise how PWA can create awareness around a theme that has its roots in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) by the U.N. and ratified by governments worldwide, yet still has daunting obstacles to overcome in the domestic day to day (to cite a recent example, the Burkini ban in Southern France). Firstly PWA’s new venue, Grand Hotel Palace in Rome’s prestigious via Veneto to host our Conferences, is a quality-driven offer to members, matching technical services with 0Km healthy seasonal gourmet aperitifs. Programming director Christine Sterpetti, nicknamed The Game Changer has up her sleeve a controversial series of Conferences, and has already jump-started with her own husband Dr. Corrado Sterpetti as Speaker, who will contribute the male viewpoint for gender related issues in the workplace with “Through the Looking Glass”. October will welcome Dr. Bruno Poggi, CEO of Pareto Education, whose innovative online university contributes to dismantling the barriers around poverty, immigration and discrimination regarding gender, race, religion and culture when it comes to further educational opportunities. Social director, Laura Rizzi has taken her mission very seriously by selecting venues for our Social networking events (known as ConneXions), combining the distinctive hospitality of PWA “nice to meet you” with central and easily accessible locations, quality fare, and affordable prices. To coin her phrase “be a tourist in your town”, Laura is particularly attentive to showcase the beauty of the eternal city for the wellbeing of our members and guests.
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TIMEOUT Communications Team is continuously developing our website and social media platforms, with news, posts, photos and separate spaces for TIMEOUT Professional Timebank. See our website and Timeout Facebook page. Thanks go to Hanna Suni and Cristiana Montani Natalucci for their combined efforts to boost awareness and participation intrinsic to this unique project, where our partners, Federprofessional will continue to contribute to its success. We count on all our members to promote and participate in this project throughout the coming year as a synonym of social responsibility.
Lego Love – a happy ending
A British guy, Ben Anderson, in love, comes up with a different, unique idea for a way to make a marriage proposal to his sweetheart, Kirsten. He goes to Scotsman, Morgan Spence (a stop-motion animator) with a story to tell. Using Lego pieces, some of which were custom-made, the story was articulated in 1) how they met online; 2) their first date; 3) their first kiss in the pouring rain; 4) their happy moments together (Disneyland etc.); 5) marriage proposal in a cinema. Morgan gets to work and finishes the project in two months, making a video clip entirely of Lego. Interviewed on TV by the BBC World News he was asked “Why - for money, for fame?” 17 year old Morgan’s reply was “For the story”. Meantime, he is now world famous, according to the BBC receiving 2 million views in 2 hours, is inundated with work offers, including a mega job contract from Lego! How’s that for an idea with a happy ending?
Year 2016/17 pectations Mentoring Program For all ages and walks of life, PWA presents the third edition of our Mentoring programs Big Sister and Carpe Diem. We are proud to welcome Luisa La Via and Maria Banks, not only certified coaches and senior Mentors, but also as creators of last year’s successful Board & Team coaching program which inspired us to develop highly competent women, resulting in the significant achievements of our collective leadership model. As a mentee, to take advantage of our personal or professional growth programs you need first to become a Member or Friend of PWA. Instead, if you wish to discover how to become a Mentor as part of our program, please contact Luisa La Via, mentorshipconsultant@pwrome.org
Inclusion Jubilee Contest Taking the afore mentioned as an example, PWA is outsourcing ideas. It’s precisely this kind of outcome that we hope our INCLUSION Contest will trigger. This is why we’re not offering money to the winner, rather we’re contributing to the idea. We’d like you to describe your idea for an event or project on the topic of inclusion, by telling a story (approx. 700 words) in English or Italian, that can be in some way “manufactured” by PWA to create awareness. Alternatively, a video could tell the story like this to focus on an event revolving around one or more aspects of inclusion. The contest closes on 30th November 2016 so you need to get those thinking caps on! Applications to PWA Jubilady Olga Plyaskina jubilee@pwarome.org
expert resources Expert Resources
Likewise, Expert Resources directory, reserved to members only and shared with Federprofessional will be available in January 2017. It’s a great way to find talent in our midst and create more business opportunities, with the same value as word of mouth referrals. Any changes in data should be made available to Membership director, Adriana Tempesta by 30th November 2016. On behalf of the Board and Teams, welcome to all our members, new and returning. We wish you a memorable Jubilee, proud to be “the People We Are”.
By Valerie Baxter, President
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�Unplugged PWA Summer Party The 2016 PWA Summer Party was held on the gorgeous Janiculum Hill at Grand Hotel Gianicolo. The guests watched the sun set over the Vatican and the Roman rooftops and enjoyed a buffet of warm and cold dishes along with a tasty glass of spumante.
Hanna Suni was crowned Woman of the Year and along with other members, Michela Lazzè, Rosemary Aspinall and Rossana Scazzocchio, she received recognition for the work and dedication over the past year.
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photos and story by Hanna Suni
Members and guests enjoyed each others' company in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. Award-winning, 22-year-old pianist Giulio Del Vescovo entertained the guests with his music.
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Nice to meet you - September ConneXion at Colle Oppio Cafè PWA hosted a great kick-off for the Jubilee Season at Colle Oppio Cafè. Social Director Laura Rizzi welcomed members and guests and offered a tasty and abundant buffet with cocktails. TimeOut project was inaugurated by Massimo Gottardi, Alexandra White and Rossana Scazzocchio. Join us in October at Il Vizio!
By Lisa R Tucci www.artemediacomm.com
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photos and story by Hanna Suni
"MOB PROGRAMMING"
Brainstorming day on June 18th photos and story by Hanna Suni
The PWA Board and Team worked hard even during the summer break. The MOB Programming day of brainstorming brought about fabulous ideas, activities, events and improvements for the Jubilee year 2016-17.
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let’s go“social”
Do social media networks promote gender inclusion? by Cristiana Montani Natalucci
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ocial media seems to be the magic formula of our era. A sort of "abracadabra" that is able to create lives, remodel behaviours and renovate personalities. If you have a proactive digital identity on Facebook, are a witty commenter on Twitter, or thousands of Instagrammers like your photos, your friends and relatives appreciate and admire you more.
This image describes the situation of differences in social media usage between men and women.
But social media is not a game to be taken lightly. The different platforms are undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools that human beings have created during the last decades, because of their capacity to transform relationships, alter minds and affect our social arenas. Teenagers’ use of social media is a very delicate issue, for as we know, teens are easily manipulated and therefore the weak ring of the social chain. Gender inclusion or exclusion begins right at this age. The social habits of teens are very well described in a research report by Pew Internet. «Teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social media sites; indeed the sites themselves are designed to encourage the sharing of information and the expansion of networks. However, very few teens embrace a fully public approach to social media. Instead, they take an array of steps to restrict and prune their profiles, and their patterns of reputation management on social media vary greatly according to their gender and network size». These are among the key findings from a new report based on a survey of 802 teens that examines teens’ privacy management on social media sites. While boys and girls generally share personal information on social media profiles at the same rates, cell phone numbers are a key exception. Boys are significantly more likely to share their numbers than girls (26% vs. 14%). This is a difference that is driven by older boys. Among teen social media users girls are more likely than boys to delete friends from their network (82% vs. 66%) and block people (67% vs. 48%). Unfriending and blocking are equally common among teens of all ages and across all socioeconomic groups. These findings are based on a US representative phone survey run by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project of 802 parents and their 802 teens ages 12-17. The topic of gender inclusion is very prevalent, because our social behaviour is often conducted on social media platforms. Many studies demonstrate that women use social media more than men, but that they are less influenced than men (influence is measured using three factors - user’s audience size, engagement of the user with their audience and authority). The list of the 100 influential Twitter users in Britain had only 17 women in it, with only one (Sarah Brown) in the top 10. Considering that technology itself has its own gender division in favor of men, it seems logical, if not right, for women to be underrepresented in social media.
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The situation is not only caused by women’s sense of uneasiness due to an ancestral caution towards technology. Social media experts have noticed that women feel a sort of reluctancy towards taking a public standpoint on a topic. This theory is backed up by the fact that women are more present in media sharing applications such as Facebook rather than in verbal sharing media, such as Twitter. This reluctancy of women to post opinions in the various social media platforms is largely a result of the unfavorable, and even often abusive responses women get purely on the basis of their gender. To prove this, journalist and Designer Martin Belam performed an experiment where he created a spoof Twitter account and found that it got more abusing and negative responses when the poster was portrayed as a female. Pornography, e-mail harassment, “flaming” (abusive or obscene language), and cyber-stalking are some of the issues that women face when they use social media. The most common form of harassment found in social networking sites is “flaming”, the use of highly aggressive language pattern - slut shaming is a frequently used and dangerous form of flaming in social networks. Women are often ignored, trivialized or criticized by men who, according to Susan Herring, “have a tendency to forget that there is an actual human being at the receiving end of one’s emotional outbursts”. Social online networking has the potential to boost the economic, political and social empowerment of women and also promote gender equality. But such a boost is possible only when we are aware of the risks and the benefits of social media. It cannot be demonized without a judicial consideration of the possible benefits for women. The HeforShe campaign by the United Nations, for example, attempts to use social media to close the gender gap between men and women. Social media can transform our lives, in better or worse. It is up to our sensitivity, culture and humanity to choose the right path. It is definitely up to us.
PWA Jubilee Year 2016/17 Event program
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e th e da tes conneXions October 5 November 2 December 7 January 4 February 1 March 1 April 5 May 3 June 7
conferences October 19 November 16 January 18 February 15 March 15 April 19 May 17
special events December 16 - Christmas Party March 8 - IWD June 16 - Jubilee Summer Party
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CULTURAL CORNER
Women in Art
“The Gender Gap in the Art World” By Laura M. Rizzi – L’altra Roma
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n the beginning they were just Marietta Robusti “la Tintoretta”, Artemisia Gentileschi and Lavinia Fontana.
In the history of art, the first prominent female artists came into their own only during the 16th and 17th centuries. They were the daughters of famous male artists, essentially painters, and specialized in still lifes and portraits. But through their work and commissions, they started forging paths for those yet to come. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, young girls won the opportunity to participate in the art world as students in private ateliers. Some would go on to attend the Academy of Arts to complete their education. But only a few would garner professional commissions such as Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, the official portraitist of Queen Marie Antoinette or Elizabeth Thompson Butler, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for her historical paintings, especially military battle scenes.
A good example of the “atmosphere” of the times, was the backhanded compliment that Hans Hoffmann paid to Lee Krasner in the mid-20th century: «This is so good, you wouldn’t know it was done by a woman». The abstract painting Thaw, made by Lee Krasner in 1957, sold at Christie’s auction house in NYC in 2007 for $1.105.000. Widely considered a very "good price" but when compared to one of Jackson Pollock’s works, (dripping Number 5), the gender gap is evident: Number 5 − crafted in 1948 − was sold at Sotheby’s in 2006 by David Geffen to David Martinez for $148.100.000. To this day it remains one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased). However, only a few years later in September 2015 in a private sale, Number 17A − another Pollock dripping of 1948 − was sold for over $200.000.000 (And even that may be an underestimate – the exact price tag is unknown, but estimates range from $259 million up to $300 million).
Artemisia Gentileschi Self-Portrait as Allegory of Painting (1638-39)
In the 20th century, the age of the avant-garde, women were part of the revolution of the arts but still, only a handful were the protagonists: artists, collectors or patrons. The vast majority stayed “behind the scenes” and we remember them mostly as models and then wives of the famed artists of the day. Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, August Rodin and Camille Claudel, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner come to mind. Anyone can recognise the masterpieces of these men, but very few can recall the names of these women and their artworks!
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Lee Krasner, Thaw (1957)
The artist Georg Baselitz, pioneer of German Neo–Expressionist painting, in his misogyny, stated matter-of-factly, «It’s a fact that very few of them succeed». The reasons for this gender gap may be a mix of things: women have less opportunity to express themselves, rampant misogyny in the academy and art world, difficulty in attracting galleries, selling their work and gaining recognition.
Although it may be true that in the 21st century, women artists are making gains, but not without bias, in the art field, reaching new heights, it’s also true that there still exists quite a wide gender gap! In 1985, in New York City, the Guerrilla Girls were born; an anonymous group of female artists with the mission of closing gender and racial inequality in the fine arts.
In 2015, the list of the most expensive contemporary artworks available, not a single one was made by a female artist. The most expensive painting by a woman is Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1 by Georgia O'Keeffe (1936). It sold in 2014 at Sotheby’s for $44.405.000 while another record is the sculpture Spider (1997) by Louise Bourgeois, sold in 2015 at Christie's for $28.200.000.
Guerrilla Girls, No title, 1989 (screen-print on paper)
In 1989, in one of their most famous works, the Guerrilla Girls wrote that less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections in the Metropolitan Museum are women. Thirty years of waging war on the status quo, the Guerrilla Girls still have a lot of explaining to do about the status of women in the arts. Georgia O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1 (1936)
«Il 'prezzo' di essere donna nel mondo dell'arte» by Maria Adelaide Marchesoni (Il Sole 24 Ore 4 Gennaio 2016) exposed the fact that in 2015, at the major auction houses, (Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips) of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York a full 92% of artworks were by male artists, leaving a paltry 8% to female works!
Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist 1988
Janice Sands, executive director of Pen and Brush, interviewed in June 2016 by Eileen Kinsella, commented on this sad state of affairs: «Unfortunately, there is no gender equity anywhere right now—and the art world is no exception. Many young women artists who are going out there and really trying to make a living at this may not be thinking about gender at all. They are thinking about whether they can find a gallery to show their art, get representation and sell their work. This is the reality that exists, but we hope that we can do something about it».
Guerrilla Girls, Women In America Earn Only 2/3 Of What Men Do 1985
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women and words " La luna investiva i suoi sogni d'argento... racchiusi nello scrigno del cuore danzavano ogni notte insieme a lei. Nessuno poteva scorgere quella magica danza tra sorrisi e pensieri solo l'abbraccio di una luna complice e sorniona."
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poem Elvira La Rocca painting Rosanna Chiani
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La John Cabot University di Roma presenta i MASTER 2017 “MANAGEMENT DELLE IMPRESE IN AMBITO INTERNAZIONALE” “MARKETING DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI PUBBLICHE E PRIVATE E STRATEGIA DIGITALE” “MANAGEMENT STRATEGICO DELLE RISORSE UMANE E ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE” “BUSINESS FINANCE” “GESTIONE E DIGITALIZZAZIONE DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURALE” Il costo del master è pari a 10.000 euro. Sono previste agevolazioni economiche messe a disposizione dall’ateneo. Tutti i percorsi prevedono lezioni frontali, casi aziendali, project work, e stage in una delle 400 aziende/organizzazioni partner. L’esperienza di stage potrà iniziare già durante il percorso di studi per permettere l’applicazione pratica dei concetti appresi in aula. I master si svolgono in un contesto internazionale e per ogni percorso è previsto un modulo integrato di Business English e altre 70 ore complessive di Inglese (grammatica e conversazione). La faculty è composta da docenti e professionisti, tutti provenienti dal mondo del lavoro.I posti per la partecipazione ai master sono limitati. E’ previsto uno sconto del 10 % per i membri di PWA ed i loro familiari. Per informazioni consultare il SITO o contattare: Prof.ssa Antonella Salvatore - 06/68191219/267− professionaledu@johncabot.edu Dott.ssa Maria Vittoria Biseo - 06/45477657 − mariavittoria.biseo@elidea.org Dott. Fabio Scognamiglio - 335/6059901 − f.scognamiglio@yourcfo.it
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We would like to welcome Andrea Barattolo, Leonella Cardosi, Gaia Chirico, Ilaria Curti and Maria Claudia Piccarreta as members who have recently joined our Association. PWA is a place that grows with each member, therefore we are looking forward to enjoying PWA together with you! Make sure to take advantage of all that PWA has to offer, from our monthly events to scholarships and Expert Resources, from the Mentoring programs to TimeOut TimeBank. If you’d like to join, visit our website and contact MembershipDirector@pwarome.org .
2016-2017 PWA Board and Team members President Valerie Baxter President@pwarome.org Vice President Michela Lazzè VicePresident@pwarome.org Secretary Secretary@pwarome.org Treasurer Treasurer@pwarome.org Programming Director Christine Sterpetti Programming@pwarome.org Membership Director Adriana Tempesta MembershipDirector@pwarome.org Corporate Member coordinator Maria Banks MembershipCorporate@pwarome.org Associate Member coordinator Nicole Giacomarra MembershipAssociate@pwarome.org Social Director Laura Rizzi SocialDirector@pwarome.org Sponsorship Director Valentina Ferretti Sponsorship@pwarome.org PR Director Marta Schneider PR@pwarome.org Newsletter Editor Hanna Suni NewsletterEditor@pwarome.org Webmistress Rossana Scazzocchio Webmistress@pwarome.org Community Director Community@pwarome.org Mentoring Program Manager Maria Letizia Nesta Mentor@pwarome.org Mentor Luisa La Via MentorshipConsultant@pwarome.org Special Programs Annalisa Cicerchia SpecialProjects@pwarome.org Think Tank Alessandra Tacconelli Thinktank@pwarome.org Media communications assistant Cristiana Montani Natalucci Media@pwarome.org Media communications assistant Karima Hassa Media2@pwarome.org Legal Advisor Adriana Tempesta Legal@pwarome.org
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