“Family members played a major role in choosing my profession; so to speak, I had the gene of an advocate in my blood. My grandfather worked in the system for many years, and I grew up in a family of advocates,” Senior Investigator Gohar Adonts of the Anti-Corruption Committee’s Internal Security and Control Department for Particularly Important Cases told Iravaban.net in an interview.
-Are there any specific difficulties that female investigators face compared to their male colleagues?
-I cannot identify any specific difficulties. This profession and work are inherently difficult, regardless of whether you are a woman or a man. Of course, from a woman’s perspective, there are certain difficulties – you need to be able to combine family and women’s affairs, and in some ways it is difficult to be a strong investigator in this complex profession without losing your femininity.
-In our society, there is a stereotype that this work is not for women. Have you heard such conversations, and how have you responded?
-Naturally, there are such conversations. I believe that conditioning any profession, including law, by gender is not correct. Those conversations have never constrained me. If you are a young woman starting work in this system, there is always a misconception that you are weak, that men can show you the right direction. Those opinions have not been constraining at all. On the contrary, they have strengthened my goal – to show through work that in choosing a profession, it is not gender but knowledge and diligence that matter.
-Based on your practice and perceptions, who lies more often – women or men?
-This depends on the type of person, and I have noticed that people lie based on feelings of fear. They lie when they are afraid that reality will be revealed, when they are afraid that the reality they tell will harm someone. I don’t think it is gender-dependent, and I cannot distinguish whether women or men lie more often.
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