Is Italy a feminist success story? Lidia Poet.

Pubblicazione legale: Today, it remains a highly politicised debate. “Every day, somebody asks me which I prefer to be called,” Bodo Corona explains. Except, these enquiries often are not limited to avvocato and avvocata. At points in her career, Bodo Corona has been called doctoressa, the Italian term referring to a university graduate. People assumed she was a trainee. Like Poët, Bodo Corona enrolled at the University of Turin’s law school with two very clear ideas. One – she would become the first lawyer in her family; and two – she would specialise in criminal law. “That was my ambition,” she tells me, “and so I did.” In 2009, she obtained her master’s degree in law, dropping just two marks in her thesis on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the massacres in Guatemala. Nearly 150 years after Poët, Bodo Corona was subsequently enrolled on the province’s Bar Association in 2013 as a criminal barrister. Also, like Poët, however, she soon realised how rife sexism and misogyny were in the legal world.On more than one occasion, Bodo Corona found clients were deterred by her gender, rather than impressed by her years of legal experience. Once, after escorting a potential client to the conference room, he turned, thanked her and asked: “Doctor, when does the lawyer arrive?”

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