Tina Anselmi

Italian politician, born in Castelfranco Veneto, Veneto, NE Italy. She took part in the resistance and was an active member of the Christian Democrats after 1944, and a deputy from 1968 to 1992. The first Italian woman minister, she served first in the department of employment (1976–8) and then the ministry of health (1978–9). She headed the parliamentary commission on the masonic lodge P2 (1981–5) and the national committee on equal opportunities (1992–4).

Tina Anselmi (born 25 March 1927) is an Italian politician, and a notable member of the Italian resistance movement during the World War II.

She joined the resistance movement in 1944, aged 17, after having witnessed the hanging of a group of young partisans by the nazi-fascists. She served three times as undersecretary to the Department of Work and in 1976 she became the first female to be member of an Italian cabinet, being chosen by Giulio Andreotti as Minister for Labour.

Tina Anselmi is best known in Italy, however, for having been the main proposer of the Italian law on equal opportunities, a matter she always fought for in her political life.