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.
“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: 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: 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.
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: 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.
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, 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: 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: (…) 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.