When women are interviewed, it's very rare for the subject not to turn at some point to their role as a woman, to the significance of this, to what extent they are different or serve as a role model for other women, and how they combine their career with family life. The Interview protocol of Die Erfolgreiche Frau™(The Successful Woman) apparently stipulates such questions. And that's a problem.
Even in the third decade of the 21st centutry, we're still deeply caught up in clichéd thinking, in particular with regard to gender roles. Deviations from the norm are not viewed as signs of an urgent need for change, but, rather, the exceptions that prove the proverbial rule: On the one side, women, on the other, men. Yet it can be thoroughly eye-opening to turn the protocol around occasionally by putting the questions typically posed to women to successful men.
For only if we break with traditional patterns can things really change.
