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IZOLDA TAKÁCS: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
femininity, or at least what we associate with the term. But I think a good leader does
not need to be aggressive, does not have to be hard as stone. That’s no requirement. If
a woman is like that however, she will be considered less of a woman. Whereas a man
is still a man, even if he behaves very aggressively. (Subject no. 5, social sciences)
They have also addressed the dilemmas attached to the token role as well
as the problems resulting from the lack of models:
What remains if there is no behavioural pattern for women to follow? That will be
a very individual life path. I have to then take the male behavioural pattern, and
I step over everyone. Or I attempt to prevail in female career roles, which is not
something I can reconcile with my own ambitions. (Subject no. 16, social sciences)
The group mainly consists of academic DScs but there are a few academi¬
cians among them as well.
3rd group: the “progressive identifier” type
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The opinion of researchers associated with this group is the exact opposite of
that held by the members of the previous group. They explicitly deny the
theory of psychology stating that the interest fields of boys and girls are com¬
pletely different. They agree that these — or similar — essentialist arguments
and theories maintain the same gender-based hierarchy they aim to change.
They state that these roles are acquired because they reinforce the assump¬
tion of the members of a given group being substantially different." Accord¬
ing to their viewpoint, the majority of the differences built upon the social role
of gender is exclusively a factor of nurture and not nature. Iherefore, they deny
the opinion shared uniformly in the previous group that states that women
are not fit to be leaders. Identification with the cluster of women is high in
their case, and they find it important to raise the proportion of female acade¬
micians. Thus, they completely fit the “dual identifier” category of MIA, mean¬
ing those who have an equally strong identification with both women and
feminists.
What I find weird is that they say things like the reason they don’t endorse women
for this and that position and the reason they always disappear from the top of
the pyramid is because women don’t actually want that at all. Well I am not in
agreement with that. There are evidently some who say that they rather want a
family with five kids, [...] but that’s actually no ground for refusal either, there are
278 Phillips, quoted in Koväcs-Szabö: Tärsadalmi nem &s szexizmusok, 44.
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