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“This job” says Ms. Esra, “is not an easy job, some can do it, others are eliminated. It is a job requiring devotion as well as competency”. I understand from all these talks and the things I saw that there is nothing women cannot do related to the forestry.
However, in more than 254 directorates of forestry, the number of women directors can be counted on the fingers of two hands. Women directors, whose number reach eight, administer 3.36% of the all district directorates. And only 13.64% of all the chiefs are women. This ratio is unfortunately under 30% which is foreseen for providing equal participation in any field and known as the “critical threshold”. And in decision-making positions and higher levels of the hierarchy, this number decreases. This number will be higher as long as the examples and role models like Ms. Esra increase and become visible, competent and equipped directors like the ones in Dirgine are raised and the supporting approach of the administrators for the progress of women in the field of forestry is maintained.