Alessandra Todde is the first female president of Sardinia and the twelfth to lead a region in Italy.
But the island, despite an undisputed prevalence of men at the top of institutions, has also seen other women break records in politics.
In addition to the famous Eleonora of Arborea, who when very young became the first and only woman to hold the role of 'judge', changing the history of law forever with the updating of the "Carta de Logu" which remained in force until 1827, the Sardinia also boasts the first two female mayors in Italy.
They are Margherita Sanna, known as 'sa'sindachessa' or 'sa'maestra' who was the first citizen of Orune for three legislatures (starting from 1946) and Giovanna, known as 'Ninetta', Bartoli.
She was the first female mayor of Barutta, a small town in the Sassari area and also in the same years as Margherita Sanna: from 1946 until 1958. Their photographs, strictly in black and white and in the Sardinian costume of the time, stand out in the Sala delle donne', inaugurated in 2016 by the then president of the Chamber, Laura Boldrini, to celebrate all the women protagonists of Italian politics.
But in the land that gave birth to Grazia Deledda, the first and only Italian woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926, there are many other names to remember.
Like that of Nadia Gallico Spano who, born in Tunis, spent almost her entire life in Sardinia.
Together with her husband Velio Spano, a senator originally from Guspini, she was part of the Constituent Assembly.
In 1945 she founded the women's structures of the Communist Party on the island and became a champion of miners' rights in Carbonia.
She was the first signatory of revolutionary bills for the time such as the one to guarantee 'equal pay for equal work' to women.
Protagonists of the anti-fascist struggle were also Marianna Bussalai, founder of the Sardinian Action Party together with Emilio Lussu and among the first feminists on the island;
Graziella Sechi Giacobbe who, with Marianna Bussalai and Mariangela Maccioni, gave life to the "Sardista Feminist Triad".
Mariangela Maccioni and Graziella Sechi were also arrested in 1937 on charges of 'militancy against the fascist regime'.
The first female councilor in Sardinia was Pierina Falchi from Nuoro who led the Department of Public Education in the 1950s.
While the first deputy was Maria Giulia Cocco who arrived in Montecitorio in 1958 in the ranks of the DC, when just 28 women sat in the entire Parliament.
In 1968 you were also undersecretary of the Ministry of Health.
A curiosity is that in addition to the first female president of the Region, the M5S also brought the first female senator of the island to Palazzo Madama: Manuela Serra,
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