From Nadia Santini to Marissa Meyer: a woman's place is where she wants to be
From Nadia Santini to Marissa Meyer: a woman's place is where she wants to be

Video: From Nadia Santini to Marissa Meyer: a woman's place is where she wants to be

Video: From Nadia Santini to Marissa Meyer: a woman's place is where she wants to be
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I'm about to exhibit an intricate feminist thought (which you'll be sending back to me like a boomerang, I already know) about women, success and empowerment. Make yourself comfortable. It is the current events of these days that stimulated me to search for a fil rouge between Nadia Santini (chef of the Dal Pescatore restaurant who will be awarded as the best female chef in the world on the occasion of the night of the World's 50 Best Restaurants on 29 April next to London), Marissa Meyer (in a few months she went from being a genre icon for her appointment as Yahoo CEO at the age of 37 and with an ongoing pregnancy, to becoming something of a sister-killing monster for banning teleworking in the company), Sheryl Sandberg (Lady Facebook, number two of the company, for Forbes is the fifth most powerful woman in the world and author of the feminist manifesto book “Let's Go Forward”), but also Margaret Thatcher, to say the least.

They are the most talked about women of the moment and reading their biographies I found that common thread I was looking for:

a woman's place is where she wants to be.

Subtitle for the hard of ears: you can be a successful woman in many ways, the last frontier of gender equality is individualism, get over it, so it is better to get out of the most gangrenous stereotypes and prejudices (of which we are victims as readers and storytellers) according to which women have to spend their days writhing in an impossible balance between mammism and careerism, always coming out defeated or at best very tired.

Remember the post about Cristina Bowerman? Go and re-read some comments. I am quite convinced that the feminist struggles waged by our mothers were to have positions of power in companies or to develop their own entrepreneurial initiative, certainly not to tear apart every successful woman who has succeeded in her enterprise by reminding her of maternal duties, or wishing her a place in hell. It happens every time: the place of women is always the wrong one, simply because you don't want to admit that sometimes, more and more, women manage to get exactly what they want.

But I want to go back to Nadia Santini and her story, because I hope that her example will renew the debate on women in kitchens. And about women in general.

Eleonora Cozzella wrote one of Santini's most beautiful profiles on Espresso.it “She has sensitivity and technique, taste, passion and rigor, attention to everything that surrounds her, near or far. His delicate appearance and voice are actually the calmness of someone who is self-confident and conceal the strength and determination of a few other colleagues, including men. The result is a style of character and charm, a polite and peaceful cuisine, a journey to discover new gastronomic sensations.

I do not know Mrs. Nadia personally, but I have known many women chefs, and if they all have a different story, it is also true that I find the same grit and determination in them. Cooking, like running a company, is a job that you do at certain levels if you are, if you can't do without it, if you don't want to be anywhere else except behind those stoves or that desk.

I like to think that Nadia Santini has a story of this type, which fits perfectly with that of her family, her marriage, the children who now work with her and who with her (perhaps thanks to her) share a passion for cooking: a new story out of stereotypes of working women forced to choose between family and career. I think so, like a successful woman who has done exactly what she wanted to do, not without sacrifices, just like a successful man, maybe more, but if I think about her I don't think about her sacrifices, I think about her goals and her last of which it was awarded I think it is a great personal pride and for all of us women.

Whether you work in a kitchen, at Yahoo, or Facebook, every woman has her own way of being successful that generally does not include shortcuts but only a spirit of self-denial. Marissa Meyer said "I'm not a feminist, it's just that I work hard", Thatcher said "Nothing is achieved without problems, ever", Nadia Santini when she heard about the award she shared it with her family "I am very happy and honored for this important recognition. They are for me, for all the Dal Pescatore, for my family who works with me, Antonio my husband, my extraordinary children Giovanni, who manages the kitchen with me, and Alberto, who manages the dining room and takes care of the wines, for Antonio's mother, who passed on many secrets to me, and for Valentina, Giovanni's wife, who works in the restaurant”.

Perhaps teaching us yet another personal way of being a successful mother, wife and woman.

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