Should I be wary of any employer that posts a job ad specifically asking for females only?
A number of schools prefer to hire females only, especially if the teaching is at kindergarten level. I don’t think we need to go into the reasons why. Seeing ‘females only’ in a job ad shouldn’t be cause for alarm but it’s always wise to exercise a certain degree of common sense. There have certainly been incidents in the past when a bogus school has advertised for female teachers and had a sinister ulterior motive. This was one reason why we stopped allowing free access to the ajarn.com resume database. We got far too many complaints from female teachers trying to fend off marriage proposals and job offers that sounded rather too good to be true. Not everyone who scours your personal details on-line is looking for a teacher.
