Army Training "Too Tough for Women"

An Anonymous User sent us this link to a BBC story about the results of an Army study which is to be published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1998, the British Army ended the double standards for training men and women and the results were predictable: women trainee's likelihood of being injured increased dramatically, while men's stayed about the same. "women are now eight times more likely than the male recruits to be discharged with an overuse injury...the findings point to a serious conflict between equal opportunity law and health and safety legislation."

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