ago she managed to turn it into a business when she opened her own pottery workshop but getting ahead in a male dominated world hasn't been without its difficulties negotiating about money in particular can prove a challenge with certain archaic attitude still prevailing. if you will often they don't take women seriously as business partners. if i were a man their behavior would be different. they wouldn't be haggling about prices so much that a go. despite some suppliers pushing for further discounts maria's pottery business is posting double digit growth she employs 5 workers and has received funding from a private investor. generation to generation our women have shown their love to the world's the people and their homes and soviet ideology meant that women were expected to work but in upper management the men often still call the shots.