Children as young as five in England will be urged to think about careers https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jan/05/children-young-five-england-urged-think-about-careers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@JohnLoader6 They do already! Popular choices include Astronaut, Beefeater, Fireman....
@greeneralia gone are the days of What’s my line being stumped by a Sagger maker’s bottom knocker. (Pottery term)
@JohnLoader6 Isobel Barnett, Lady Barnett. And the poor old thing turned out to be a kleptomaniac. She turned up to the studio in a chauffeur-driven Rolls but tried to steal a tin of tuna...
Yes, I remember her from "What's My Line" - a popular 60s TV programme.
She killed herself when she was caught stealing - is that right?
@Paulos_the_fog @JohnLoader6
I had forgotten that part - did she really?. Poor woman.
It was indeed very sad! I believe she was a qualified medical doctor; something that was extremely rare back in those awful unenlightened days.
I thought it was obvious what I meant but, yes, rare for a woman to qualify as a doctor.
Training as a doctor was my mother's ambition but she had to settle for nursing as her parents didn't want to 'waste' the money on sending her to medical school when there were sons to be educated, even though she obtained the necessary entrance qualifications.
@Paulos_the_fog @greeneralia oddly almost all vets we see are female
@Paulos_the_fog @JohnLoader6
Rare for a woman, you mean? Yes.
She was very witty, I do remember that.