Short Firewoman Sues for Discrimination

	posted by Scott on Monday February 04, @06:28AM from the news dept.
	Captain Pistachio writes "In this article a woman too short to do her job as a firewoman claimed sex discrimination after she was taken off active duty." The fire dept. continued to employ her part-time as a trainer, but would not her, at 5'1" to be a firefighter. Unless you can show me a 5'1" male firefighter, I don't believe this is legitimate discrimination.

	Source: The Telegraph [UK newspaper] Title: Tiny firewoman sues her brigade Author: Thomas Penny Date: January 30, 2002

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Idea! (Score:1) by aurora on Monday February 04, @09:25AM EST (#1) (User #399 Info) Instead of remaking the equipment to suit here, why don't we just ban fire. I mean, if there were no fires, then the world would be a much safer place. Or make sure that fires only occur within her reach. While we are at it, just make everyone buy new elevators to accomadate her! It's only fair. Wonder how she would do carrying a 200 pound man down a few flights of stairs. Probably as well as most 5'1" men, dragging him down.

Truly amazing. (Score:1) by nazgul on Monday February 04, @09:29AM EST (#2) (User #620 Info) I simply can't fathom the level of narcissism and selfishness it takes to place one's own ego before the lives of other human beings. If this article is at all accurate, we are talking about a woman who was unable to perform her duties...duties that were vital to the survival of other persons. Shortness is just a physical condition and no one need blame her for that. But her situation is not much different from that of a surgeon with a nervous condition. No one wants to see the good doctor out of a job, but there again no one's life need depend on his sense of accomplishment either. What she will have to demonstrate is that the fire department would NOT have taken a man off of active duty if he were too small to actually perform his job. Shortness, like incompetence, is not a strictly female attribute, so I can't imagine where she is going with her argument. Hopefully, no one's life and limb will depend upon her abilities, ever.

911? Yes, Can I Have A Non-Feminist Fire Engine. (Score:1) by Uberganger on Monday February 04, @12:04PM EST (#3) (User #308 Info) I found an interesting article a while back that touches on this subject. It's called 'Men, Women and Sex Differences: The Attitudes of Three Feminists - Gloria Steinem, Gloria Allred and Bella Abzug', and can be found at: http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/eisenman.html (as ever, remove any rogue spaces) Scroll down to about half way and you'll find a paragraph titled 'Funny and Sad', which gives a very revealing insight into the mind of Gloria Steinem who "objects to any pre-employment screening that results in most women not passing". The rest of the article is quite interesting too. It namechecks Christina Hoff-Sommers, which is no bad thing.

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