Midweek linkasserie
Within eight years most doctors will be women • But men still hold on to very top jobs, says report
I'm hmmm about this, because there are still a lot of sexist male dinosaurs stomping around the upper reaches of the medprof, and I'm not persuaded that they are all of a generation soon to be gone from us. However, if "Men who are interested in medicine are often keen on numbers and technology.... We thought bright young men might be being attracted instead by IT and the City[."]: frankly, I think that if they are that is One Damn Good Thing because there is a difference between having necessary technical skills in the practice of a profession and being an obsessed technophile number-cruncher.
If women getting together isn't dangerous conspiracy, it's all about the triviality and the jam-making: this is an interesting article about the work the Women's Institute is doing on domestic violence, but of course 'jam-making' has to be name-checked. The WI's origins during the so-called 'first wave' of feminism seems to be a complete blank in most minds
Hadley Freeman on 'Feminism - point thar u hav misst it'.
Environmental matters. The problematic distinction between The Land and the people who are actually living on it. Can it really be true that Conservationists have often seen native people as a problem to be solved by eviction [that bit I do believe]. Now both sides are learning mutual respect [oh yeah?]. However, on matters on environment, this looks like potentially good news.
But eeeeuw at David Cameron's new bezzies (not that I ever, ever, considered him to be a wee flopsy bunny of huggableness anyway, another 'shocked but not surprised' moment).
I think someone should devise a portable disposable chamberpot suitable for inclusion in one's cabin baggage, that could be left behind on one's Ryanair plane at the end of the flight.... (I am a woman of a certain age and I have certain bodily requirements. Maybe O'Leary is like Lady Montdore and only goes once a day in the mornings: this is not exactly common, which was Lady M's point.)
A thesp with impeccable taste:
In three films he was straight man to the knockabout comic Norman Wisdom, who always congratulated him on being able to keep a straight face. Later Alexander admitted that had he not been making so much money from these films, he would have told Wisdom that the reason for his straight face was that he did not find Wisdom remotely funny.
Bless.
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