The First Gondoliera Of Venice

I saw a beautiful and very romantic scene of Venice today, and I suddenly remember the news of the first official female Gondoliera. She was Giorgia Boscolo, then 23 years old. She was in the news a few years ago because she had just passed the very strict admission exam to what's considered a profession exclusively for the male during the last nine centuries. She had to attend the official classes and after that the determining final exam. Meanwhile she could row the gondola as 'substitute Gondoliero' only. Another woman, Alexandra Hai worked as gondoliers since 2007, during that period she had to resort to the Tribunal Court 3 times, against suspicious and ungrounded suspension. She works in a hotel, never got the title of Gondoliera. I can never understand why certain professions are only for male and others are for just for female, if both sexes are capable of doing the job mentally, physically and with the same qualifications and competence. Tags:Venice,gondoliera

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