Twenty years ago this week I set out on my postgrad' HR Diploma to gain IPM (now CIPD) status.
It wasn't uncommon at that time for mates to ask: "Is that not a woman's career?"
I listened not - and joined another 9 or 10 blokes on a course of around 40.
I went on to enjoy (most of) the challenges of HR enormously - only needing to handle disciplinary and dismissal cases to know it was anything other than a 'soft option.'
Roll forward twenty years to the same week... and I have just completed my first evening as a part time lecturer for the Employee Resourcing module of the self same course. Bizarre enough in itself, but guess how the male / female split looks in these much more enlightened times?
Yep, not one single male in sight, out of a class of 24.
Not a scientific study maybe, but it was a pretty surprising discovery.. As was the fact most students appeared to listen to what I had to say.
More on the still surreal development of me teaching on my old course to follow....
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