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
R: (...) One of the first occasions when I felt I was a man was kind of funny.
(...) I: We mentioned that when you were deciding what career to chose, there were people who told you that you ought to become a lawyer for example or ...
R: (...) I think the most important thing, which I also experience daily, is the decision whether or not I will go on with my studies and until where does this reach, until where should I progress with my studies. This is I think the most important question.<br />(...)
R: So, we were with (Name1 – his girlfriend) in (Neighborhood1), next to some block of flats, maybe a year ago, I don’t remember. So we saw some gypsies, and she went to them and asked them where the block that we were looking for was, and they started explaining some things amongst themselves.
R: Of course, the subject of combining a motherhood and a career is very recent to me. Before choosing the field of my studies I always thought that being a civil servant is a perfect choice if someone wants to combine motherhood and career.
R: I belong to a generation, as you can see in the form, in which there was a match between two important events in time. There is a time in which gender differences stand out, but we’ll talk about them later.
R: I suppose when I was thinking about it, Ireland has changed a lot and there aren't the stereotypes that there were maybe for my parents’ generation.
R: Well in fact, I still suffer from being prepared to something: ‘Yes, go ahead and do it, you can go to the gymnasium!’ And you take extra lessons with a small group of friends, extra French lessons (two weeks, two days, I forgot about that), and then they tell you: ‘You’re not allowed to do this
R: Before I started teaching, one evening I was at my fathers house, having dinner. My father, his wife, my stepbrother and his friend were there, and we were talking about school, and memories of school.
R: (Before I got married, I imagined) having a classic family, because my parents were really fine, for them it worked well all their life, so I thought it was natural, that it would be the same for me.<br />(...) I: (...) Something got lost, in the way people consider the couple?