7th June 2010, 01:32 PM
trowelfodder Wrote:I definately agree that the work life balance expected of staff in archaeology is way out of kilter. To suddenly be expected to drop everything at a moments notice and travel 100's of miles away or to commute for hours extra each day is not exceptable but until we all stop competeing with each other and doing these things for fear someone else will nothing will change. What we need is a greater commitment within the proffession to change. This will have a knock on effect for all not just women which is in everyones best interests
Unfortunately those 100s of miles away jobs that you only get told about at 5 o'clock the previous afternoon are never going to go away, unless the construction industry suddenly has an attack of being remotely organised and planning ahead, which historically doesn't seem too likely! Changing the archaeology profession isn't going to change that, unless you're suggesting going down the 'regional franchise' route? Commercial archaeology is competetive by its very nature....