10th October 2011, 09:54 PM
I'm not sure how I can say this without sounding massively sexist, but the first thing that struck me about the list of successful candidates was that eight out of nine are women, when surely a split closer to 50-50 would be expected. I'm sure that each was the best candidate for their respective posts, but I think it would be worrying if community work were to become seen as a female 'ghetto'. I remember when I was starting out, you got the sense from some people you met on site that women should be working indoors, in finds or something, leaving the site work to the hairy-arsed men (and conversely, that 'real men' didn't work in the office), and I would hope that a similar sense doesn't attach itself to community work.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum