Alessandra Minello is a researcher in demography at the University of Padua. She is the national coordinator of the PRIN PNRR 2022 “FORTIES”, on the experience of motherhood for women over 40. Author for Feltrinelli of Parents as Equals. Time, Work, Freedom (with T. Nannicini, 2024) and for Laterza of Not a Country for Mothers (2022). She curates the report The Balancing Act. Motherhood in Italy for Save the Children.