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IZOLDA TAKÁCS: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY Examining the criteria and possibilities of reaching the status of academician, however, traditional, archaic social structures showing univocally exclusive attitudes toward women can be observed. This was not due to their personal inadequacy for a scientific career, but due to the attributes and gender stereotypes matched to leadership status familiar from workplace apparati. Analysing the interviews unambiguously revealed that these have to be distinctly separated from the “pure” scientific career. We could state, on the other hand, that the phenomena experienced in relation to the academic elections are still reinforcing the status quo, meaning thatthe justification of the system presents itself by keeping the leadership positions for the dominant group, despite allowing women to enter certain scientific fields. As we discovered, the conjoining of several procedures assists this effort, as academic self-election and re-election has been woven together with other social phenomena, such as institutional discrimination, the ideological socialization of workplaces, and other direct and indirect forms of differentiation. This chapter explains why the equality of rights resulted in equality between the two genders regarding leadership positions. In the next part of the qualitative analysis, I examined the interviewees with regards to identification with the female identity. I have sorted them into five different groups (creating types). These five types are: (see more details in Chapter four) 1st group: the “dual attachment” type 2nd group: the “essentialist identifier” type 3rd group: the “progressive identifier” type 4th group: the “classical equality” type (progressive non-identifiers) and 5th group: the “alternative” type This categorisation revealed that they fundamentally rejected positive discrimination. The majority of them view themselves as present on the forums not as women, but as representatives of their respective field and themselves. Another part — showing a stronger attitude for identification with the female group — wants to further the rise in the number of female scholars both in the ranks of DScs and academicians in one way or another (not, however, with positive discrimination). There were only a handful who deemed the female quota not a good but an essentially necessary solution. The attitudes on how much women want to become leaders or how capable they are to fulfil these roles were also divisive among the individual types. An interesting facet of the results was that none of the women have ever suffered any disadvantage in their career as a result of being women — not one scientist examined in my research fell victim to any discrimination in the world « 14 e
