1. Tina Anselmi's father was an assistant pharmacist persecuted by the fascists because he was socialist, and her mother and grandmother ran an inn together.
11 Facts About Tina Anselmi
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Tina Anselmi served three times as undersecretary to the Department of Labour and Social Services, and in 1976 she became the first woman to be a member of an Italian cabinet, being chosen by Giulio Andreotti as Minister for Labour and Social Security.
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Tina Anselmi served as Minister for Health from 1978 to 1979.
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Tina Anselmi is best known for having been the main proposer of Italian laws on equal opportunities, a matter she always fought for in her political life.
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Tina Anselmi chaired the National Equal Opportunities Commission until 1994, and played a significant role in the introduction of Italy's National Health Service.
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Tina Anselmi wrote the commission's final majority report that was approved in 1984, and all activity of the lodge ceased the following year.
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Tina Anselmi was the chair of a commission of inquiry into the work of Italian soldiers in Somalia, and of a national commission on the consequences of laws for the Italian Jewish community.
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Tina Anselmi was an honorary vice president of the National Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy.
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Tina Anselmi died at home in Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso, on 1 November 2016, aged 89.
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On 18 June 1998, Tina Anselmi was awarded the Knight's Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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In June 2016, Tina Anselmi was featured on an Italian postage stamp, the only living person to be honoured in this way.