At present, ten women and twenty man are
working at the Open Society Institute-Assistance Foundation.
So, women make the minority. Does it mean that women are
losing to men in work?
Let's start the "monitoring"
of an issue from …. the Executive Director. Though it doesn't
make sense, as he is a men. Whereas, we are interested in
our ladies' opinion. We are not going to reflect men's thoughts
this time. Then… Financial Director! This person knows the
answer to the main question - how much money the organization
spends and why? Therefore, this person is suppose to be
quite wise.
Zara - Head of the Finance Department:
How does your being a woman help when getting into any
kind of difficulty at work?
When there is a psychological confrontation, of course,
women solve it in a more successful way. Nevertheless, gender
doesn't make any difference in professional issues; the
main thing here is a work.
Who are the best finance specialists - women or men?
In our society, men do not like any superiority of women:
this stems from our mentality. However, I believe that if
women want, they can do any job better than men. The difficult
state of our women is changing them. Women used to be gentler
in the past. Now, they have to achieve everything counting
on themselves. So, we are hardening. We are definitely not
weaker financers than men. We can even leave them behind
in the future.
Gultekin - Technical Director:
What do you think, whom can a woman manage better -
another women or men?
I think there is no difference here. It depends on the professionalism
of the manager. I have been working here since 1997. We
have 12 people working at the Technical Department. Before
coming here, I used to control over a bigger number of employees
at MSF- Holland. If a manager is able to differentiate between
the priorities at work and plans his work, then he will
manage the employees in a proper way. It is very important
to understand deeply the problem of every employee, direct
him, not to demand to do more than he can, to create a good
working condition for him, render the necessary assistance
for increasing his competency, to explain to every employee
that his job is of certain importance in the organization,
and finally, to understand the employee. Both the women
and men. Because, if an employee has some difficulty, he
will deviate from his job, be thoughtful, which leads to
the shortage in job quality. Therefore, some gentleness,
sometimes a compromise is needed at work along with exactingness
in order to create the spirit of team.
Narmina - Reception:
How do you think, is a woman director better, or a man?
ACI-YF is my seventh work place and the directors in all
my previouis work places were men. I think, this is the
right course of things. In general, genders must be different
in this type of relations. On the other hand, my present
director is a woman, and one of the reasons of my staying
here is this. I think, she creates the comfort. Yes, comfort
- this is what defines my staying. Gender is a very important
issue. I cannot say a reason of why I would leave this work
place... maybe, if I had much extra-money at home...
What if a young man would work instead of you? Would
it change the quality of this job?
Do you really think that a young man would sit here? I personally
don't think so. This job requires a lot of patience. You
sit down here all day long and answer everybody's questions…
Also, men have more ambitions, while this position has no
prospects…
Shahkhanum - Member of the Technical Staff:
What is the main difference between women's and men's
neatness?
Our guys are all the same for me. They are all very neat.
I cannot complaint of them. Some of them are even too neat.
This is my job. And everybody is accountable for a certain
area of work in our orghanization. I wouldn't say that there
is a big difference between men and women, let's say, fifty
to fifty.
Gulnara - Coordinator of Women's Network Programs:
Can the gender inequality be seen among the OSI-AF employees?
There are no big differentiations in our office. Professionalism
of people is more important. Both the women and men can
do their job.
And how does the gender problem display itself among
the guests coming to your office and generally, other persons
whom you meet during the work process?
To my mind, presently women are more constructive. Life
makes them to take many steps. Finally, they harden. While
men, on the contrary, still cannot give up their patriarchal
habits and sometimes the new provisions introduced by gender
confuse them. Equality with women is hard for them. However,
some time passing, they look around and change their mind.
At the same time, it should be taken into account that equality
of women and men is an issue of law and does not differentiate
between these two genders.
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At the end, we do not want to make
any conclusions. Just adding one more fact that in
this term of 2006, OSI-AF has ensured individual grants
to 20 women and 26 men. The number of women here is
also big. Let us believe them. Women have been the
actual heads of our families for already several centuries.
Their successes are evident: have they been unable
to do this, their reign would not have lasted so long.
Though we are living in a "patriarchat:.
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