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Rosanna (Rosa) Oliva de Conciliis (Salerno, 10 September 1934) is an Italian civil servant, activist and writer, known for having won, in 1960, the appeal against the Ministry of the Interior at the Constitutional Court, after the refusal, as woman, of the institution to admit her to the competition for the prefectural career. The decision of the Consulta in her favor was a historic decision, as it opened public competitions also to women[1].

Born in Salerno from Neapolitan parents, she studied at La Sapienza in Roma where she had among others, the professors Costantino Mortati, Carlo Esposito, Mario Toscano, Andrea Torrente. In 1958 she graduated in political and social sciences with a thesis on the "Dynamics of legal systems". After graduation, he submitted an application for the competition for the prefecture, but the application was rejected because, until that moment, public competitions were reserved for men only. .

Assisted by the constitutionalist Costantino Mortati, her professor at the university, she appealed to the Constitutional Court against the Ministry of the Interior because, as a woman, she had been refused admission to the competition. Knowing that women's rights had provoked heated resistance in the past, Mortati referred to law no. 1176 of 17 July 1919 and the unconstitutionality of its art. 7 . On May 13, 1960, with sentence n ° 33/1960, the Constitutional Court agreed with Oliva. On the exclusion from the competition, the Council went beyond expectations, explicitly recognizing in the provision contained in Article 7, the violation of Articles 3 (on equality before the law without distinction of sex ) and 51 (on access to public offices and elected offices without discrimination between the sexes ) of the Constitution. The victory in the Council later allowed her to obtain a public office in the Finance Office in Rome, as a legal consultant for the Chamber and the Senate and an activity at the Undersecretariat of State, first in the Internal and then in Health.

On 2 August 2010, on the initiative of the then President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, she was appointed Grand Officer of the Italian Republic. The same year she received the Minerva Anna Maria Mammoliti Prize for gender equality, in its twenty-first edition.

In 2010 she founded the Network for equality association with which, as president, he took action to spread the sentence of the Constitutional Court n. 268/2016 on the attribution of the surname of the mother to the children.

She was one of the protagonists of the episode of 2 December 2018 of the transmission The girls conducted by Gloria Guida on Rai3.

She has two children and a niece, Irene, to whom has dedicated the book, Dear Irene I am writing to you.

Works

 * Cinquant’anni non sono bastati. Le carriere delle donne a partire dalla sentenza della Corte costituzionale n. 33 del 1960 (1996)
 * In difesa del Parco di Veio (2006)
 * Cara Irene, ti scrivo (2016)
 * Quando il Vesuvio aveva il pennacchio. Vi racconto la mia Napoli (2019)

Prizes

 * Premio Minerva Anna Maria Mammoliti (2010)