R: (…) I work for a firm where there are approximately 200 employees out of which there are, let’s say, about 8-9 women, that is, there are a lot of men. This a research and innovation firm, so they, these men are highly qualified, very clever and intelligent. So… This is the situation.
(---) When I moved to CITY1, then I did not have an old friends-network in CITY1 and now it is an additional value when we started to play basketball with journalists, different journalists with whom you had not worked together before and some musicians and architects, that created a more convenient
R: (…) Now, without a doubt, there are not many women in creative occupations. So getting back to the point… I graduated at the faculty of electrical engineering, where there were surprisingly many women, while at the faculty of mechanical engineering males dominated, there perhaps 10% were women.
R: (After my retirement) ‘I was president of the French Gliding Federation, where the male team had excellent results. We were the first or the second best nation, depending of the championship. Curiously enough, the female team didn’t have such good results.
R: Sometimes I notice that clients flirt with me. So I settle things once and for all, I don’t give cause for anything. You can…I’ve never been in a situation that…Well, yes…I remember. God, how bad I felt! How bad! I’d forgotten. I felt really bad. I was very innocent at that time, inexperienced.
R: And then my daughter was born, and I was at home with her... This was never questioned I: You were working at the school [as a teacher]... Was it never questioned by you [and your husband] either?
(...) R: If you ask any kid in school, if you have a story about the differences between girls and boys, there is … a difference. (...)<br />(...)
R: After that I gave up school, came home and my mother decided to give me a knitting machine. And I said ‘Damn it!’. Knitting? Why me? I learnt. She invited a girl from Madrid to teach me, I learnt and I worked.
R: (…) I chose Civil Engineering and I got in the university, and in a universe of 120 students we were about 20 women. (…) so, it was a very low percentage. In the end of the graduation degree, I don’t know how many men, but only 3 girls got the diploma.
R: Well, let’s start with choosing a high school. During gymnasium, I was somewhat good at Romanian Language and humanities, meaning the ones more appropriate to women.
“Yes, I must say that I grew up in a very remote area of Austria, a very traditional, conservative one. And it was common there that a girl could not sit at the table with the adults, in particular when the table was dominated by men.