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A business managed mostly by women? Thread poster: Elías Sauza
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Elías Sauza 
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Currently, 9 out of 10 of the email messages I have for current and future jobs came from women. I have noticed this trend in nearly 6 years of freelance translation work. Is translation currently managed mostly by women? Or women tend to work more with male translators? Or the other way around? What is your experience?
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Elías
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Haven't noticed...haven't cared. Not sure about race, religion or planetary origin either
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Natalie
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In my case at least 7 out of 10 translation-related messages come from men. Any ideas?
Natalia
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Sheila Wilson
Spain
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| But it's the same here on ProZ | Feb 9, 2010 |
I think it's an industry-wide thing - women are predominant in the language industry, so why shouldn't the majority of managers be women too?
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Henry Hinds
United States
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In memoriam | Female Dominated | Feb 9, 2010 |
From all I have seen it appears that our fields of Translation and Interpreting are very much female dominated, perhaps 3 females for 1 male, so it would not seem strange to deal with a large number of women at all levels in our business.
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
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| Not all women are women | Feb 9, 2010 |
Elías Sauza wrote:
Currently, 9 out of 10 of the email messages I have for current and future jobs came from women. I have noticed this trend in nearly 6 years of freelance translation work. Is translation currently managed mostly by women?
Two of the three local agencies I often do work for, are staffed 99% or 100% by women. But... a number of the PMs from overseas agencies whom I have assumed were women turned out to be men. Different cultures seem to use different names for men and women.
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Elías Sauza wrote:
Is translation currently managed mostly by women?
no.
Sending o femails — yes.
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jyuan_us
United States
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Most of the PMs I worked with are women but the bosses of most of my clients are men.
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Amar Nath
India
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MODERATOR SITE LOCALIZER | I don't care | Feb 10, 2010 |
What does it matters ? The most important question should be how it is being managed rather than it is being managed by whom ?
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Jaroslaw Michalak
Poland
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Tokyo_Moscow
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Well, in my experience, at least here in Japan there are more men than women in industry.
Obviously many PMs are females, but most of the company owners are males.
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| Femails by females? | Feb 10, 2010 |
Sergei Tumanov wrote:
no.
Sending o femails — yes.
Sending of "femails"??? Loved the involuntary Freudian slip!
[Edited at 2010-02-10 15:32 GMT]
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| I must add that... | Feb 10, 2010 |
RichardDeegan wrote:
Haven't noticed...haven't cared. Not sure about race, religion or planetary origin either
... some customers make proposals that are really out of this world, so one must doubt about a local planetary origin...
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Nicole Schnell
United States
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In memoriam | I don't see any patterns. | Feb 10, 2010 |
The ratio male / female is about (or precisely?) 50 / 50.
Industries? Let's see: steel, mining, military, aerospace, oil - I work with women, PMs as well as on end client side. Decorative cosmetics, cruiseships and pretty vacation resorts? I work with men.
See a pattern? I don't either.
Edited for typo
[Edited at 2010-02-10 17:44 GMT]
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DZiW (X)
Ukraine
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| a particular case | Feb 10, 2010 |
IMO in the world there're more women than men (about 60/40), so it has little to do with the translating/ interpreting itself. For example, nowadays in our country there about 3 newborn girls to a single boy, but it depends on the region. Also right after WW2 it was a reversed rate because there were almost no men...
The Mother Nature knows how to make it better)
The only thing, our employers prefer to hire men because they think that:
- men are more 'stable' (esp. emoti... See more IMO in the world there're more women than men (about 60/40), so it has little to do with the translating/ interpreting itself. For example, nowadays in our country there about 3 newborn girls to a single boy, but it depends on the region. Also right after WW2 it was a reversed rate because there were almost no men...
The Mother Nature knows how to make it better)
The only thing, our employers prefer to hire men because they think that:
- men are more 'stable' (esp. emotionally);
- most men are less apt to things like chitchatting;
- men cannot be pregnant and rarely take a maternity leave;
- men can do some "man's" or 'strength' assistance;
- rare men can reject a claim from a nice lady;
. . .
[Edited at 2010-02-10 18:06 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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