"Women need to rediscover their feminine side in a world that is more and more male-oriented. In daily life, at work, even in their dreams…". Larisa Balbuzan, 27, Rumanian, English teacher, teaches Methodology of the Catechesis at the Catholic Institute of Bucharest. She, who deals with social and church issues, thinks March 8th is "an important date to send out constructive messages" for gender equality in her country and in Europe: "Our society often lacks the gentleness and the tenderness of women. Having a full and pleasant life should not mean just having a rewarding or well-paid job, but first and foremost it means to be fulfilled in gender difference. To be like men at all costs, many women have lost their typical traits, their feminine disposition. I’d like to add that a woman is not a woman only when a man looks at her, but also when she lives in society, when she is with other women, when she talks to a child and even when she is working in her office or in a factory". "Our age – continues Balbuzan can learn a lot from the typical sensitivity and tenderness of women, and Europe will be more welcoming and open when women will have the courage to respond to their natural talent: which is just that of being women".
