Within City Hall, Mr. Dobrin's name has been mentioned for several higher positions.
"If the hierarchies or people in higher positions than myself come down on that, they do.
She kept applying for higher positions and kept hearing that she needed a bit more experience.
Women are increasingly moving into higher positions both in government and business.
In the past year 14% of men in management roles were promoted into higher positions compared with 10% of women.
It has a rigid hierarchy, with a number of figures occupying higher positions than Morsi's had been.
But when the presidents leave, she said, the other women often do, too, sometimes taking higher positions elsewhere.
Indeed, while they are in familiar surroundings, Stoke actually spent the last two Christmases in higher positions.
"Women having more control of their work pace and schedule usually hold higher positions," she said.
Although both are more accustomed to higher positions, they have adjusted excellently to their new roles, driving forward and combining swiftly between the lines.
Less than 17 percent of the current under secretaries general are women, and less than 38percentt of the staff members in professional and higher positions are women.
