Firefighting and Gender

Submitted by Scott on Sun, 2001-09-23 23:17

Neil Steyskal sent in this article from the National Review. In it, Kate O'Beirne writes about the firemen in New York, and a court decision that watered down the physical fitness test required for people to become firefighters. An interesting fact is that, even with the test change, only 36 of New York's 11,000 firefighters are women.

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