Final frontier
13 September 2012
There are still some trades for which women aren't even considered
Twenty years ago seeing a woman on a building site was a rarity, having your car fixed by a female mechanic was an excuse to stare, and being flown on holiday by a pilot who wasn’t a man was a sensation.
These days such experiences cause less of a stir, as more women gradually make it into professions traditionally dominated by men. The most recent government...