Err?

Sometimes I get the feeling that business hasn’t quite got this sex differences thing. You know, the idea that women are more likely to be empathizers, men to be systemizers (liklihoods, not certainties):

It is not just men, nostalgic for the toy locomotives of their childhood, who are signing up to drive the real things. A spokesman for Southeast Trains said: “We now have a number of women drivers. Many trains are driver-only now, and so drivers need to be able to make announcements and be good at customer service. Women often have better interpersonal skills than men.”

One of this new female breed, Maddy Corper, was a research chemist for ICI. “I decided to follow my dream and began pestering train companies for a job,” she said. She was taken on by Connex before becoming a freight train driver.

Lots of passenger announcements on a freight train, eh?