Back around the turn of the year I applied to be a Commissioner on the Equal Opportunities Commission. Didn’t expect to get in but today provides evidence of why I should have:
Research by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
found that young people were actively discouraged from pursuing a job
outside the "norm", even though their talents lay elsewhere.
The
study also found that girls from poorer, less academic backgrounds were
missing out on careers advice, work experience and training. In
contrast, girls who go on to higher education had more chance of
finding better-paid jobs in "male" professions such as medicine and law.
Medicine and the law are "male" jobs? The majority of those training and the majority of those qualifying in the two professions are female and have been for a decade. The EOC is therefore at least a decade out of date and needs new blood. Ergo, I should be a Commissioner.
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