Female teacher beaten to maths job by man with 'firm handshake' wins tribunal case

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Congratulations Vanaja Greenwood. It's unbelievable that this sort of nonsense still goes on. (Hope I haven't cross posted) www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vanaja-greenwood-female-teacher-beaten-to-maths-job-by-man-with-firm-handshake-h6xlqttn5

or the man being "the right sort of person"

That is sexism. I'm sure multi-tasking comes into it too (and not having annoying constraints to worry about, like small children).

I have lost count of the number of highly-qualified, experienced women friends who have not applied for great jobs because they couldn't tick every single box on the "essential qualities" list, only to find that job had then gone to some bloke who could barely tick half the "essential qualities" list but applied anyway, and expected his half-assed efforts to be plenty good enough.

^^

This - I was once asked why the vast majority of my hires and promotion recommendations one year were female - answer because they ticked pretty well all of the criteria and not many of the men did. Also I've seen women let go for not being able to do the job and men who were even less competent promoted where they could do less damage....

The rugby thing seems thrown in to try and justify their decision?

How many people can teach maths really well and also coach rugby properly? That's bollocks.
I've tried teaching maths it's really difficult. Getting it yourself is no help when explaining to others.

I don't understand the job spec which is why I think they made it up after the event to justify what they did.

All that happens is they'll all learn to be less honest about why they hired the man, next time round.