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120 pictorial documents about immigration and internal migration in Switzerland
D 5: Objet/ folding rule
My father was a civil engineer. As a child I was often allowed to go with him on visits to building sites. I was fascinated by his work, and so I wanted to become a civil engineer. However, I never got to fulfil my long-standing wish. My parents thought it wasn't a job for a woman.
Ruth D., born 1935, from Hagen in Westphalia, Germany