In our last
Meeting we spoke about the topic of Gender Equality. How Gender and Gender
differences are perceived in different countries? Are the women in our
countries more focused on career or prefer to give priority to the family? What
are the expectations that society and family have towards women?
At the
Meeting participants were from Russia, Austria, UK and Italy, so we just
decided to discuss how gender equality takes place in our societies, and what
we
think about gender roles in Russia.
We think that
in Russia a lot of women see family as something fundamental and often they
prefer family over career, so there’s a more traditional idea of woman. Still
we have to recognize how sometimes it’s so difficult for women to combine the
two things, it’s really hard to look after your children in the best possible
way, and still work all the days and try to manage your career.
Companies
usually are not too sensible on this matter, and women are “obliged” to go back
to work, after the birth of their children, quite soon, and can’t take
advantage of their maternity leave how it should be.
In Western
Europe we feel less that a woman value in society is connected in having a
family. Women prioritize often their studies and career, a lot of times they marry quite late and have
kids later than in Russia.
In all
countries it’s fundamental that the State guarantees some good infrastructures
(like kindergarten) and laws that help women as mothers and workers.
We
discussed how relationships between the sexes are also a bit different in each
country; in Western Europe we think less to women as a “weak” sex, but we
rather prefer to consider ourselves more on the same level; this also implies
that men are usually less “attentive” in regard to small gestures that in
Russia are so common (like open the door for a women, always paying when out on
a date, for ex.), but also they have less say on what a women should do or not.
There is no
right or wrong, just we agree on the fact that a woman should choose freely
what is the best for her life, without feeling too much pressure from the
society, but the society instead should help them to find their own ways.
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