Let’s Talk: Kamal and Hind

Kamal: “I’m interested in a career in HR, in organizational behavior and psychology, sociology, and there’s a stereotype that people who work in this field are only women. Even a professor in our class told us, “I’m glad there are men in the class.” So, usually, this class is always women. I feel this is a stereotype about gender…I don’t know how I’m going to feel it later in the future when I get into the job market…

Especially if I want to study psychology and sociology and all these things, there’s a tendency for women to study this more. I think this is something in this region, in other places it’s not like this. It’s in the media––boys should do engineering and medicine.”

Hind: “But you don’t really care about society when you’re trying to climb your way up…I think that’s one of the reasons I want to be a CEO. I don’t want to have a boss who says, “You’re a woman, you get paid less, you’re perceived as less powerful,” so really, I don’t want to be underneath that. I would like to be my own CEO because of that partially.”

— Kamal Al Hout (Business Management and Sociology) and Hind Abu El Teif (Finance and Marketing)