“Yes, we talked about weddings and marriage, talks which revolved around how to meet norms and expectations, but how one could nevertheless create one’s own niche.
R: So I have experienced only positive situations. Namely, it has been easier for me. At my university, I study at ASP [the Academy of Fine Arts], it is girls, who have it much easier.
R: Well, beginning from my childhood… at that point I did not really see the difference between the sexes; I knew there men and women but this was not so important, for example that I would have any disadvantage from being a girl or a boy.
R: Well, the first one was when I began studying. As I was a little girl and my father thought he wouldn’t be able to comply with the schedules of taking me and picking me up every day by car; I was living like what? 4/5/6 Km from (name city).
R: Well, in this very moment I just remember, maybe, the profession I got, I’m a nurse and I work for 13 years. In fact, in the last years, now it’s not so obvious, women and men apply for this academic course.
I: But you are planning to built up a professional career? As an independent or employee? R: Yes, yes, absolutely, No, this is something! I: It is something obvious?
R: One thing is that you feel insulted because of the salary to a certain extent and the other thing is that you are simply not listened at.
R: When I was a child, I saw it clearly because my brother was always the favourite. I didn’t count. My mother thought that my brother should study and then bring up a family, and that I should do what she did: go to church, pray, do the housework and cook well.
R: When it comes to… professional experience would play some role here. However, I never… It also results a bit from a… from who I am as a person.
R: (…) In what I did, you had to be a man; women couldn’t do it. Well, it is a service in the textiles, the wool products business, more properly said.