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We may never understand “what women want”, what WE want as women, but whatever it is, surveys suggest that it is independent of where we live, how old we are, or what we do in life. Thirty-seven years ago, when the General Social Survey in...

Visiting family in the US recently, I was struck by the number of nail parlors open for business in their neighborhood, in spite of the economy. There are five times more nail salons on one side of one street on one block than in all of Busto Arsizio...

Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, came to Milan recently to promote her latest book, A Mercy , just now available in Italian. One advantage of being an expat is that you hear about these things (Americans hear about the American celebrities...

So what is the solution for Italy’s educated, elegant, but inadequately assertive professional women? The recession may be a blessing in disguise for them. The moderator of the Women’s Forum, Laura la Porta, who writes for Il Sole/24 Ore ...

New year, new hopes, new resolutions, and the same old problem in Italy: why is it that Italian women, among whose numbers can be found some of the world’s sexiest females, don’t make more babies? Seeing Italian women undulating down the streets...