By Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli
What happens to language and the way women are addressed when they start to occupy positions of responsibility? Well, it depends on the language.
In Italian, most women prefer the masculine titles, because the feminine version (when it exists) is considered ludicrous, even derogatory.
Since January 2011, I am Greenpeace Spain's Executive Director. From 1990 until 1996, I was based in Hong Kong as an EFE correspondent, covering the South East Asia, Korea and Pacific region, in charge of a group of contributors. I then spent five years in Panama in charge of the business section of La Prensa, the Panamanian newspaper of record. I coordinated or edited investigative business stories, some of them with environmental links. Several of these stories were award-winners. A year of free-lancing in New York followed, writing for different media, such as El País, The Nation, UPI, Gatopardo and Offshore Alert. I covered the Sep. 11 attacks for El País. I joined IPS --a news agency dedicated to the envirronment, human rights and global issues-- as Editor in chief in January 2003. I published my first novel in 2007.
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