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R: I do not have any special ideas about the male role. I believe that it is a question of mutual agreement. In our family, when kids were small, I must say that my wife took care of them more, I was not that present. I started to teach at that time. It was a very exciting period.
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I: Ok, anything else that you thought about?
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R: I have 50 clients, all teleworkers: secretaries. All women, housewives, in 2011 (…) So I spend a lot of time with women, today, in 2011 France, and I am listening incredible stories. (…) “Hi, A., what did you do before?’. ‘I was executive assistant’. ‘Why do you want to work at home, now?’.
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R: In small villages in that area (a region in Southern Italy) everybody’s opinion was that only boys would have studied as they were supposed to earn money for their families while girls were to be married as soon as possible as after being 20 years old they were considered too old to find a husban
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R: In the school at a young age I was very boyish because I used to play football, I used to go camping, I climbed fences, I used to go everywhere... Boys had always been in my company, not girls. I had shared one school desk with a boy for a long time.
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R: Well, yes… the work…Here it is the role in the relationship, which perhaps my wife does not even expect from me, but I still feel it quite a lot that practically I should perform well and support the family, so like… it feels all depends on me.
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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.
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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.
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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
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R: When my mother was a mayor, my father took some of feminine responsibilities; he cooked, ironed as I remember. He was the only one who ironed. So they changed the roles. But when she left the position, the roles got back. I: Did your family life changed somehow when your mother became a mayor?
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R: (...) One of the first occasions when I felt I was a man was kind of funny.
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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 />(...)