The glass ceiling in the house of power.

The increasingly significant presence of women at the top of political and economic institutions has been hailed by several international commentators as a momentous culmination of feminist battles for gender equality. The election of van der Leyen to the European presidency, Christine Lagarde to the presidency of the ECB, or Giorgia Meloni to the presidency of the Council of Ministers in Italy is in part symptomatic of a fundamental shift that has taken place within the feminist movement over the past four decades. If the women's rights movements in the 1960s and 1970s fought primarily for the development of public welfare services and access to the labor market – in a context where most women in Europe were engaged mainly in unpaid domestic work – the gradual increase of women's labor force in all productive sectors since the 1980s has also changed the nature of the feminist claims for economic equality.