Elena Cattaneo responds to Nordio: ‘The patriarchy gene doesn’t exist’ | In fact

“A gene from patriarchy it doesn’t exist and where it exists it’s a mutation, said the pharmacologist and senator for life Elena Cattaneofrom the Eredità delle donne stage, interviewed by the festival’s artistic director Serena Dandini, responding to what the minister said Carlo Nordio during his speech at the High-Level International Conference Against Femicide in the Chamber of Deputies. Nordio has stated that “although today man accepts and must accept absolute formal and substantial equality with woman, in his subconscious his genetic code always encounters a certain resistance”.