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July 1st, 2011 | 
Author: Russian women kick stereotypes when seeking jobs.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, RT has been meeting women pursuing their preferred professions in Russia’s workplace – sometimes amidst trying circumstances.
While the Soviet Union was embarking on a space race with the West, back on earth Russian women were making steps of their own. But despite being given an enlightened place in rhetoric, they were often held back from making further strides.
Russia has more women than men, yet only three female cosmonauts have ever made it into space. The situation has no clear explanation and highlights some of the problems that still exist in Modern Russia.
Elena Serova is hoping to buck that trend. She is realizing her dreams and training to become the first Russian woman in space since Communism collapsed.
“My childhood dream was to go into space,” Serova told RT. “I think if somebody was born to become a boxer, then they can be. We have both famous men and women boxers, everything depends on the individual.”
Her determination to break longstanding boundaries certainly stands out, but it is by no means unique.
Dealing with labels rather than legislation, this attitude is increasingly driving women into working environments where historically men have dominated.
Another woman with an outstanding career, Nadezhda Mikhailova, is a bodyguard. Her love for martial arts has taken her down a career path that not long ago might have been blocked by discrimination.
“I think it’s society which hangs labels on male or female professions,” Mikhailova told RT. “The important thing is how a person feels in this or that job. This profession is no different from others.”
Another area which is not typical for women includes state organs such as the police, where although women are now increasingly evident, only a few appear to make it up the ranks.
“Personally I know two women detectives, one in Moscow, the other in St Petersburg,” Olesya, a private detective, told RT. “Sometimes people prefer contact with women, not men. For example, when I need to do research on the street, to ask people what they saw or found.”
Despite the much-cited pluses, it is in managerial capacities where women still lag behind their male colleagues, something experts put down to lingering stigma.
“Women can get a leading position in the company, but it is rarer than men,” Yury Virovets, president of Headhunter group, told RT. “It is not because they are worse, but because they are women. Russian society is not very tolerant towards female leaders.”
According to Soviet doctrine, if anything women in Russia were ahead of the curve, portrayed in public as workforce warriors at a time when the West seemed stuck in its ways. But peering past the Iron Curtain, parity was never reached, with men dominating in employment roles.
Perseverance in the modern age has pushed things on. Still, as another Women’s Day is celebrated most conclude the upward climb is one not yet complete, and further trailblazers to lead the way.
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