Not told of an internal position on maternity leave.

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I’m on maternity leave. I work part time (3 days a week) in a good mid-level professional job. I work hard, always have, never had any concerns raised by seniors, happy service users etc.
I had a brief encounter with my senior the other day where I was informed that the team had been shuffled a bit after some of my colleagues at the grade above had left the job. In all this, an internal position for the grade above me became available. I am more than qualified for it after being at my current grade for the last 5 years, I am the most experienced member of the team at my current grade (all others have joined within the last year and have far less years experience).
Am I being unreasonable feeling pissed off and undervalued because I wasn’t informed there was an internal position available? I could have only found out about it if I was at work/ if I had logged on to my work system during maternity leave. None of my colleagues let me know a position was available and it resulted in my (very nice and well deserving but significantly less experienced) colleague getting the position. I would have liked to have had a chance to apply and I feel like it was hidden from me and I have been held back because I’m on maternity leave. Is that just the way the world works and it’s tough luck for us mums?
I feel really bothered by it. How hard is it to give me a call to let me know?

** I definitely have the level of experience required for the job, I have been waiting for a position to come available for years and it was on my goals discussed with my manager.

I was responding to your post where you said of course people on maternity can be expected to log on and check the internal vacancies. Not if they physically can’t. Of course if there is another mechanism for them to check then yes they should but that isn’t the case here.

This changes things. If the only way to know about the job was by logging onto something you didn't have access to anymore(due to being on maternity) , then they dropped the ball.

Some people on this thread have absolutely no clue do they?

Well not necessarily. It may be org policy that if there is a form any contact outside of that isn't allowed. In which case, whatever a manager 'knows' they'd still have to follow the form.
OP would do well to check at least what internal policies I'm sure she'd remember if she'd been asked for preferencees. If she hasn't, and was suppsoed to have been that can be raised.