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- IDENTITY
R: First, I want to start with my life at school, because it is my first such stage when I get exposed to society. Then I noticed that teacher’s attitude towards me as a girl is different than against my classmates – boys.
- PROFESSIONAL CAREER
R: […] during the whole period of studies, I acted as a leader in various student organizations. I did… I was a project manager.
- PROFESSIONAL CAREER
R: So practically I used to work in a shop selling cloth. The owner of that shop was a foreigner and since he was in the textile business he was often coming and going abroad to buy cloth anyway and he used to tell me 'in my absence you must manage my establishment'.
- EDUCATION
R: Well, when you are studying at (name university) then you do work a lot in groups. If you are in a boy's group there is always competition to get one or two girls in. And then in the second term we got two girls in the group, all together we were five persons.
- IDENTITY
R: I was something like 16 or 17 years old, when I started to visit the French institute and there I discovered kind of ‘real world’s visions’, I mean, opinions and concepts that went beyond the Czech context, where the roles of women and men are quite sharply defined – at least, that’s how I though
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: I think in my generation the youth is most prominent because we lived through the changes. In the family where I grew up, even with my grandparents: the husband worked and the wife stayed at home. My mother, she went to a school where she learned embroidery and household stuff.
- IDENTITY
R: First of all, what comes to my mind is that I am a basketball referee, so I try my hand above all with basketball. So maybe [I will say something] with respect to this. Actually, the majority of sport referees are men. It is the same in basketball.
- IDENTITY
R: So my daughter had a boyfriend for a while who was a pilot. But the relationship broke off and afterwards nothing really came, although she did want to have a relationship. The biological clock started ticking. Well, she now has a relationship with a women.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: For 18 months, we are in a process of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), with my wife. In this case, by the fact of being a man, there is a physical difference. Because in the case of an IVF, medical constraints are much differentiated for the man and the woman.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: The first time I really felt a discrimination for being a woman was when I got pregnant (…) during the pregnancy of my first child, at the sixth month of pregnancy, more or less, I was sent to the office, because my board was afraid that I could suffer some kind of accident in the construction, a
- SOCIETAL CONTEXT
R: Another story related to being a man and having lived in a different way because of my sex, happened when I was a teenager, when I went out with my friends. I think my friends have a lot to do with my education and my socialization, with what I see and what I say.