I experienced it when women entered the Fire Department.
Some of them try really hard, but -—————
Their injury rate is much higher. There are tools they cannot use for lack of physical strength, the jaws of life arent feathers.Starting gas powered tools is tough on them.Waking up stairs with 35 lbs of protective clothing and 50 lbs of Firefighting gear is not for the weaker set.
Then we have the pregnancy thing where they have to get placed on light duty, and then dissappear when the baby is born for a length of time.They come back out of shape and more useless than before.
The officers in charge of them are asked how the women are making out, and they all say, they are great. What else can they say if they ever want a promotion? They aren’t idiots, they know the system.
I remember an incident that happenedone day.
A man who wanted a transfer to a ore active company had put in for it a few times and been turned down because he was needed where he was.
he and this “woman”—sometimes it is hard to tell. Got in an argument. She claimed she could do anything he could. Well he had seen her in action and knew better, but the argument continued until he said lets go settle this in the alley. Let’s go, we will see how bad you are.
Of course she refused and went to the Capt.
The kid got transferred the next day.
He went to the Company he wanted to go to, and the Company he was at lost a good man.
I read this during the Tailhook scandal in 1991, can anyone comment?
“If the military evaluates 100 males and 100 females for physical fitness & strength, the findings tend to show that the ten strongest women have the same level of fitness as the ten weakest men in the total sample of 200.”