★How can we change an obsolete world designed for men, which penalises women and does not respond to the true demographic diversity of our society?
★English sample available.

The photo of the cover:
Cherchez la femme. Literally. On this photo. And you will find Katharine Graham, the only and first woman elected, in 1974, to the board of directors of the Associa-ted Press (23 members, pictured here during a meeting in New York). Although Graham was a legendary jour-nalist and director – she led the “Washington Post” du-ring the Watergate scandal – she had that role because the newspaper was owned by her father, who in truth had initially appointed as editor Katharine’s husband, Philip Graham, who later died by suicide. Since Kay Graham was the only woman to such a high position in publishing, she had no female female role models and initially had a lot of difficulty being taken seriously by colleagues and employees, as she recounts in her auto-biography Personal History.

The advance of gender equality is not just mere propa-ganda, but we cannot can talk about change without questioning power, and on this topic everyone is wa-tching closely Italy. Examples of a new, more inclusive and more balanced model, in politics as in economics, exist, but resistance is strong, and women’s power is still far from being consolidated and structured into an influential and capillary network.
The problem is that we are all – yes, even the more or less fluid girls and boys of GenZ – much more sexist and conservative than we are willing to ad-mit. Even in the Germany that Angela Merkel has ru-led continuously for 20 years, only 41 percent of citi-zens declare that they feel comfortable with a woman as head of government. And “girl power” has often be-come such a mainstream phenomenon that it risks being a by-product of that maleocracy – or to use a word that has recently come back in vogue: patriarchy – where women, having taken power, act no differently from their male predecessors.
Through data, interviews, scientific research and recent news, Maleocracy is a lucid and provocati-ve snapshot of an epochal mutation that contem-porary society is facing, and reveals a more com-plex picture than mere gender discrimination.
Among the interviewed: Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Esto-nia, and Vera Gheno, linguist and activist for inclusive lan-guage.

Emanuela Griglié is a journalist and writes for “La Stampa” and “Repubblica Salute” mainly on innova-tion, digital culture and science. She contributes on lifestyle and social issues with “Harper’s Bazaar” and “Esquire”, and has been editor on current affairs to-pics for “Vogue” and “L’Uomo Vogue”. She has pre-viously written for “Italia Oggi” and “Il Mondo”, and was part of the team that created and launched “City”, the first Italian free press of the Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera group.
On X he is: @emgriglie.
Guido Romeo is a journalist and author specialized in innovation and corporate communication. He has been part of the editorial staff of “Il Sole24Ore” and “Wired”. He is the author of Silenzi di Stato. Stories of denied transparency and of citizens who do not surrender (with Ernesto Belisario; Chiarelettere, 2016). For his work he has received national and international awards. On X he is: @guidoromeo.
Emanuela Griglié and Guido Romeo are the authors of Gentlemen’s Only (2021)