“Biological sex creates numerous barriers for a woman in our culture. I have personally suffered from it at every stage of my life – from my early marriage to my career advancement, I’ve had to establish myself over and over again, to prove that I
The stories and the challenges that are told by the modern women from Georgia on this page, were in fact first written and talked about by the women living as early as a century ago. Most of you are probably familiar with them - the
„I have already come out to the family and my friends. I live with my mother. My father is no longer alive. I do not remember exactly whether I was 17 or18 years old when I came out. First I fell in love with a
“By March, I will have been a migrant for 13 years. Initially I thought that I would not stay here for more than 5 years – I thought of this term as going to prison. When I arrived in Italy some women said that they
We left Abkhazia on September 29, 1993, and went to our cousin in Zugdidi. We were destitute, without any means to provide for ourselves, so we decided to head for Tbilisi. I was a teacher, so we were offered to live into a dorm. They
“I was raised by my grandparents since I was born. My mother left me and my father died when I was 6 months old. I have done all the housework since childhood. I have had my own hens, pigs and turkeys, which were my source
"I realized in my early childhood that females represented the ‘inferior sex’. There were two children in the family - my sister and me. We often heard from our father that he was not motivated in life because he did not have a son -
“One of the most significant hurdles in the career path of a woman is her pregnancy and zero tolerance to her pregnancy at work. Ineffectiveness caused by a probable maternity leave is the label that the employer can stick on any woman and question her
“I was in the eighth grade at school when I accompanied my mother to Turkey to assist her in working on a plantation. We worked hard to make ends meet. When the time came for me to choose my profession, I decided to select the