Wives of the world leaders due to attend next month’s G8 summit in Italy should boycott the meeting because of Silvio Berlusconi’s “sexist” and “offensive” attitude to women, a group of Italian female academics has said.
A number of wives, including Sarah Brown and Michelle Obama, are to join their husbands at the summit, although the wife of the Italian Prime Minister will not be hosting as she is seeking a divorce.
Veronica Lario announced the end of her marriage at the end of April after Mr Berlusconi attended the 18th birthday party of an aspiring model.Since then, a series of allegations about his personal life has emerged.
Prosecutors in Bari, southern Italy, are investigating “inducement to prostitution” by a local businessman after an escort girl claimed women were paid to attend Mr Berlusconi’s parties in Sardinia and Rome.
In the first sign of a public reaction against the stories of scores of young models attending parties thrown by the Prime Minister, 72, three social sciences academics have written an “Appeal to the First Ladies” and claim to have garnered “hundreds of signatures” in support of the letter.
“We are profoundly indignant, as women employed in the world of universities and culture, at the way in which the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi treats women both in public and in private,” the letter reads.
It said they were referring not only to Mr Berlusconi’s personal relations with women, which had “transcended the personal sphere and assumed public significance”, but also to his recruitment of women from the world of showbusiness for politics.
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