Female and male voters in the Republic of San Marino

Subject

Investigation into the memories of the first passive vote of the Sammarinese women and men elected, the research
on the acquisition of the right to vote by women in San Marino is conducted both on an archival level and with the collection of interviews with women voters in 1964 and elected starting from 1974. The research will be accompanied by a Teacher Refresher Course on the topic: Citizenship and Gender between Current Events and History.
The documentation produced by research centers and institutions, as well as by individual scholars working in different disciplinary fields, confirms a higher rate of female presence in the sectors most involved and negatively affected by the pandemic. In healthcare, services, distribution, where many women are employed, a greater risk of contagion has manifested itself, albeit in different forms and measures. The female presence is also large in the sectors most affected on an economic level (just think of tourism).
Furthermore, women, due to an increase in commitments attributable to the closure of schools and childcare services, have had to reconcile work and family life with greater effort than in the past.
Also in the course of these last months there has been a worsening and a recrudescence of data regarding violence and murders.

Research objectives

• Analysis of the historical context;
• The first requests for voting in the 1950s;
• The new electoral law of 1959 and the introduction of active voting;
• The first voter turnout: the 1964 elections;
• Acquisition of the right to passively vote;
• Women's participation in parliamentary life: the first decades;
• The numbers of women's presence in Sammarinese political life.

Third Mission Objectives

Within this project, the creation of an exhibition is planned, which has developed with the following panels:

1. The first requests for voting in the 1958s until the XNUMX law;
2. First voter turnout in 1964;
3. The right to vote and the 1974 elections;
4.  The first four elected;
5. The commitment of the Council Commission for the emancipation of Sammarinese women with legal aspects (1972-1986);
6. The 1982 referendum campaign;
7. Active participation in political life with materials from interviews;
8. Data on participation in active political life to date (local administrations, presence in the Great and General Council, top roles).

Status of works

The research will conclude with the publication of a volume in the “Quaderni” series of the Sammarinese Centre for Historical Studies.