12th October 2011, 02:18 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I am sure that the opportunity to apply for these training placements was open to all. Looking at the 'host' employers, I am pretty certain the interview and selection procedures were fair. It seems in this case that 89% of the best candidates happened to be of the same gender.....totally unremarkable!!
I wasn't suggesting that the placements weren't open to everyone, and I said in my original post that I was sure that each of the successful candidates was the best for the job they got. The point I was trying to make was probably closer to that made in Dinosaur's post, along the lines of whether there's some reason that men don't seem to be particularly well represented in specialist fields, in this case community archaeology. Is there some reason that men don't apply for these sort of posts - for example, why can't Dinosaur think of a single case of a guy asking how to get work in a specialism?
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum