Technologist aboard the Laura Bassi: “A workplace that founds its own culture on respect, creates the terms for gender equality”.

Yachtswoman, architect, Olympian, mother. Giovanna Micol is closely linked to the sea.

“Educate girls and boys in the same way: the differences are to do with character, not gender”.

Olympic Sailor and University Professor of Geology. Mother and sports enthusiast.

“Sport has formed me: if you think you don’t have enough physical strength it is simply because you aren’t sufficiently trained”.

 

CFO of Samer&Co. Shipping: “Even we entrepreneurs have a central role, because in our companies we must impose a model: those who shine, who are deserving, must move forward. It is not a question of gender”.

English, a PE teacher, she has sailed around the world six times and she is the sailor who composed the mixed crew for the round-the-world “Turn the tide on plastic”.

“It isn’t important to be the first woman to do something, what’s important is to keep doing it”.