Today we talk a lot about gender equity and female empowerment but, when it comes to assigning responsibility or showing trust for official work people still prefer male professionals. Professional life is not easy for females. There are lots of hurdles and one of the biggest problems is that female professionals do not help their female colleagues and bosses, as a rule. The Post World-War II period was quite hostile towards females and there were few females working at a high position. Thanks to education and the changing mindset of the people now the situation is better.
Earlier females had to fight for everything. The conditions were more difficult. Now there are few jobs that are considered not suitable for females. Nowadays females are well-educated and can manage difficult tasks with full confidence and tactfully.
But we should mention that female professionals are more under pressure and they put an extra effort to perform their management well.
It is really difficult to answer for sure if one gender is better than the other. There are several factors that can affect a person’s performance. Though for some work females are better, but for some other jobs, males are more competent. One of the positive traits of female bosses is that they are more supportive. Females can read the mind and feel better emotions of others, so these qualities also help them in managing other people more effectively.
The debates about males versus females are never-ending, but we should remember it is important an individual should perform his/her duty in a proper way and that counts but not the fact whether he/she is just a male or female.
Сегодня мы много говорим о гендерном равенстве и расширении прав и возможностей женщин, но, когда дело доходит до распределения обязанностей и показывает доверие к официальной работе люди по-прежнему предпочитают мужчин cпециалистов. Профессиональная жизнь не легка для женщин. Есть много препятствий, и одна из самых больших проблем заключается в том, что женщины-профессионалы, как правило, не своим коллегам-женщинам и боссам. Послевоенный период был весьма враждебным по отношению к женщинам, и мало кто из женщин работал на высоких должностях. Благодаря образованию и изменению менталитета людей сейчас ситуация лучше.
Раньше женщинам приходилось бороться за всё. Состояние было более тяжелым. Сейчас есть немного профессий, которые считаются не подходящими для женщин. Теперь женщины хорошо образованы и могут решать сложные задачи с полной уверенностью и тактичностью.
Женщины-профессионалы находятся под большим давлением, и они прилагают дополнительные усилия, чтобы хорошо работать.
Действительно трудно ответить наверняка, лучше ли, один пол, чем другой. Есть несколько факторов, которые могут повлиять на производительность человека. Хотя для некоторых работ женщины лучше, но в некоторых других работах мужчины более компетентны. Одной из положительных черт женщин-боссов является то, что они больше поддерживают сотрудников. Женщины могут читать мысли и лучше чувствовать эмоции других, поэтому эти качества также им более эффективно управлять другими людьми.
Споры о мужчинах и женщинах не заканчиваются, но мы должны помнить, что важно, чтобы человек выполнял свой долг надлежащим образом, и это имеет значение, но не тот факт, является ли он мужчиной или женщиной.
Akhmatova was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of St Petersburg tradition of Russian poetry in the course of half a century. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece on the Stalinist terror. Her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism.
Akhmatova was born near Odessa. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in 1905. She was educated in Kiev, Tsarskoe Selo, and the Smolny Institute of St Petersburg. Anna started writing poetry at the age of 11, inspired by her favourite poets: Racine, Pushkin, and Baratynsky. As her father did not want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, she had to adopt the surname of one of her Tatar ancestors as a pseudonym.
In 1910, she married the boyish poet Nikolay Gumilyov, who very soon left her for hunting lions in Africa, the battlefields of the World War I, and the society of Parisian grisettes. Her husband didn't take her poems seriously and was shocked when Alexander Blok declared to him that he preferred her poems to his. Their son, Lev, born in 1912, was to become a famous historian.
In 1912, she published her first collection, entitled Evening. It contained brief, psychologically taut pieces which English readers may find distantly reminiscent of Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy.
By the time her second collection, the Rosary, appeared in 1914, there were thousands of women composing their poems "after Akhmatova". Her early poems usually picture a man and a woman involved in the most poignant, ambiguous moment of their relationship. Such pieces were much imitated and later parodied by Nabokov and others. Akhmatova was prompted to exclaim: "I taught our women how to speak but don't know how to make them silent".
Nikolay Gumilyov was executed in 1921 for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova presently remarried Vladimir Shilejko, and then another scholar, Nikolay Punin, who died in the Stalinist camps. After that, she spurned several proposals from the married poet Boris Pasternak.
During the whole period from 1925 to 1952, Akhmatova was effectively silenced, unable to publish poetry. All of her friends either emigrated or were repressed. Her son spent his youth in Stalinist gulags, and she even resorted to publishing several poems in praise of Stalin to secure his release. Their relations remained strained, however.
Only a few people in the West suspected that she was still alive, when she was allowed to publish a collection of new poems in 1940. During the Great Patriotic War, when she witnessed the nightmare of the 900-Day Siege, her patriotic poems found their way to the front pages of the Pravda. After Akhmatova returned to Leningrad following the Central Asian evacuation in 1944, she was disconcerted with "a terrible ghost that pretended to be my city".
After Stalin's death, Akhmatova's preeminence among Russian poets was grudgingly conceded even by party officials. Akhmatova got a chance to meet some of her pre-revolutionary acquaintances in 1965, when she was allowed to travel to Sicily and England, in order to receive the Taormina prize and the honorary doctoral degree from Oxford University (in the trip she was accompanied by her life-long friend and secretary Lydia Chukovskaya). In 1962, her dacha was visited by Robert Frost.
Akhmatova's reputation continued to grow after her death, and it was in the year of her centenary that one of the greatest poetic monuments of the 20th century, Akhmatova's Requiem, was finally published in her homeland.
There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more properly known as the Sheremetev Palace) on the Fontanka Embankment, where Akhmatova lived from the mid 1920s until 1952.
