"...Shit. Quick, lower our standards for women specifically! Lower our standards so inferior performance still passes for them!"
"But then any woman in the troop would be assumed to be incompetent, no matter their actual skill, because they got in through overt, obvious favoritism."
"Ah, but that's THEIR problem, not mine. I'm not losing my pension over this!"
How it went down:
"Only the best and brightest can pass our tests!"
"Sir, the women aren't passing the tests..."
"...Shit. Quick, lower our standards for women specifically! Lower our standards so inferior performance still passes for them!"
"But then any woman in the troop would be assumed to be incompetent, no matter their actual skill, because they got in through overt, obvious favoritism."
"Ah, but that's THEIR problem, not mine. I'm not losing my pension over this!"
What's funny is that they already lowered the standards when they made the gender neutral test in order to have more women be able to pass.
Now they want to lower standards even further.