Our commitment to promote gender equality begins in 1919 with Maria Artini, the first Italian woman to graduate in electrical engineering at Polytechnic of Milan.
Immediately after graduating, she started working at Edison covering managerial roles and collaborating in designing and realising the country's first ultra-high voltage (130 kV) power line, the Brugherio-Parma.
From 1936 to 1946 she organized and headed Edison's statistics office, dealing again with ultra-high voltage power lines.