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Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On

I agree with what the Minister says, but equally that stereotyping goes on long beyond the point of being a young girl, into being a young woman. We have all had experience of ringing public companies and our first contact with that company, whatsoever it is, is usually a young woman on the telephone. If that young woman is asked a question that is outside her tick-box paper in front of her, she is completely and utterly lost. The point that I am trying to make is that companies do not spend sufficient time, effort and money training those young woman. That underlines, yet again, the young woman's sense that what she is doing is irrelevant and that for her to want to be anything more than just somebody who answers the phone is a complete waste of time.