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: Okay, so definitely I felt that in the home, when I was any age from about 6, 7 - so, I'm the second of 6 children, I'm the first girl - so there was definitely: the girl is going to do that job or the girl will do that.
R: When I was a child, in primary school, I had a friend who used to spend the summers in my home town. We had quite a deep friendship. We would always hang out, we played together, went to one place, then to another, we talked about our stuff.
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: (…) 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.
R: Yes, of course, all this was again related to my family. Yes. Me and my husband, we had a family business: we were offered by the (city municipality’s) social department to deliver thermoses with warm lunch to elderly people.