13th May 2008, 06:21 PM
I remember a blatant bit of discrimination working on a site for a woman supervisor once,the male PO would come to site nearly every day to find out the progress but he always came to ask me! so I dutifully filled him in only on whatever feature i was doing,owt else ask the Sup he would be told,which he would reluctantly do but only briefly.After getting short thrift of me he even tried asking a newbie young lad who being very flattered told him what he wanted to know,but that stopped next day after i had a quite word with the lad that such info should only come from the Sup in charge,so the idiot PO HAD to talk her.
I was told afterwards that the bloke had a problem accepting women on site as diggers let alone as running sites!!
Hopefully such was a rare occurence in archaeology and is even rarer now.Me, I don't care if a person is a hermaphrodite from the planet Venus so long as they are: 1)competant, and 2) can make a good cup of tea at breaktime.
I was told afterwards that the bloke had a problem accepting women on site as diggers let alone as running sites!!
Hopefully such was a rare occurence in archaeology and is even rarer now.Me, I don't care if a person is a hermaphrodite from the planet Venus so long as they are: 1)competant, and 2) can make a good cup of tea at breaktime.