![]() In the first five to ten years of my career, everything I did I was the first or the only.” In conducting, there are so few women, period. That’s a really problematic thing in our industry, in particular. “I’ve heard so many horror stories about people either being forced out of jobs when they get pregnant or losing jobs after they have kids because there’s an assumption, in particular for women, that if you have kids, you must no longer be interested in a career that requires a lot of travel and dedication. Yankovskaya posted about this “to first of all thank the people in my life who make all this possible-especially my husband, Daniel Schwartz ’07-but also just to raise awareness,” she says. “I hope we are beginning to let go of this ridiculous, sexist stigma.” “When I had my first kid, people told me that no one wanted to see a pregnant conductor, that I couldn’t possibly conduct while caring for a newborn, and that being a mother and being a conductor are incompatible,” tweeted the mother of two. ![]() ![]() The Twitter thread, containing Yankovskaya’s musings on the stigma and outright discrimination faced by the relatively few women in her field, was picked up by Good Morning America among other national media outlets. Lidiya Yankovskaya ’08, Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater, is one of only two women conducting a major American opera company. ![]()
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