"There will be no more roles barred to women," Meloni, the country's first woman prime minister, said during a ceremony in the Lower House's Women's Hall, dedicated to the first women to enter the Italian institutions.
On the eve of International Women's Day, the official gathering on Tuesday was to add her own photograph to the others on display.
"Today we remove a mirror and replace it with a picture," Meloni said.
"But there is another mirror that can be removed. That time is not as far away as it may seem," the PM said, referring to the two mirrors occupying the spaces reserved for images respectively of Italy's first female prime minister and president.
"March 8 should not be a day of claiming what others should grant women, but rather a day of pride and awareness of what we can do, whether others like it or not," Meloni continued.
"My commitment is to Italian women who face enormous difficulties every day in order to have their talents affirmed, their sacrifices recognised.
"Likewise, it is my daily commitment to find solutions so that the women of this nation can fully affirm themselves without having to give things up, because that is not right," she concluded.
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