Sarah Rainsford

She said he was the healthy son of a patriarchy.

I think the interesting thing about this law is that politically it had cross-party support.

But the people who are critical, primarily that I've spoken to, are people who say it doesn't go far enough.

Not because the law doesn't go far enough, but because you can't legislate away something like femicide.

So there's a lot of discussion about the need for changes in the education system today.

here in Italy, and particularly the need for sexual and emotional classes, education in the curriculum.

And there's a current fight over that.

So the right wing of politics here doesn't want to allow sexual and emotional education in school as an obligatory or mandatory course.

They want that to be only optional for parents have to have to agree to it.

And they don't want it for younger children.

Yeah, she is, although she's not seen as a feminist, particularly here in Italy.

But yeah, she is a woman, of course, at the very top of Italian politics, a very powerful woman here.

And she did and does back this law.

The critics would say, though, this was gesture politics.

And this was the easiest thing that she and her party could do.

They point to the fact that there's no money attached to this law.

So there's no kind of investment in any sort of educational projects or anything in terms of improving police responses to, you know, cases of domestic abuse, for example.

Yeah.

And that it's all about just shouting about femicide and not actually doing anything to address it.

So I think it's interesting to see how deep this will go in terms of actually changing anything in Italy.