The exhibition Women of the Republic: Eighty Years of Achievements in ANSA Reports, 1946–2026 retraces the long journey of women’s rights in the history of the Italian Republic, beginning with a landmark date: June 2, 1946, when Italian women were called to the polls for the first time and contributed to the birth of the new democratic Italy. The photographic project is accompanied by texts, audio, and video materials.
Through photographs from ANSA’s extraordinary archive, the exhibition tells the story of the women, achievements, and turning points that have shaped this journey: from the 21 women elected to the Constituent Assembly to women’s access to the judiciary in 1963; from equality between wife and husband in 1975 to the decriminalization of abortion in 1978; and from the abolition of honor killing and “rehabilitating marriage” in 1981 to the recognition of sexual violence as a crime against the person, rather than against public morality, in 1996.
