ABSTRACT
On paper, as we have seen, women do less well in the promotion race than men. There are clearly a number of reasons for this which are related to the question of supply. First, there are considerably fewer women General Trainees recruited than men; secondly, there are fewer highly qualified women than men and fewer women with some form of higher education which is more and more a prerequisite for the more senior posts (this is particularly true of the 35-45 age group from which much of the material for this study was drawn); thirdly, a fairly high proportion of women in their twenties and thirties leave the BBC when they get married or have children.
