42nd edition of the Pio Manzù International Conference
Rimini, Novelli Theatre, 21/22/23 October 2011
The twenty-first century will be the women’s century, because there is a new awareness of gender rights among the world’s decision-makers – be they men or women. Women are furnishing far-sighted, alternative and wise solutions to the major challenges faced by humankind.Also in the poorer and more depressed areas of the globe, women can and must play a forceful role in the pursuit of peace, development and emancipation both for themselves and for men. Women’s empowerment, training and education, then, are essential conditions for solving the most widespread and pressing historical problems of the underdeveloped countries.The Pio Manzù 2011 Conference seeks to build on the efforts of the international community and proposes new targets for reflection on the part of the many-faceted universe of contemporary men’s and women’s thought, inviting experts and decision makers to come up with projects and pointers for the future capable of enhancing and enriching the vitally important work afoot in the field of gender thinking: the development of gender culture, not as a form of separatism between man and woman, but as a synthesis of unity in diversity.