In theory, yes. In practice, no. Because what happens in reality is that you get a few women who really do have merit. But because they now exist somewhere, even if it's 1:1000 and there's none in 1000 miles, every fire station is going to be required to have facilities to accommodate these theoretical female fire fighters who may not even exist in the county.

And it sucks for those who want to do it and are capable of doing it. But it's not the taxpayers responsibility to subsidize their dream job either. And that's before "I'm offended" lawsuits, maternal leave, and a whole host of additional costs that aren't benefitting anyone but the employee. Despite current wisdom, making employees feel validated is not the point of hiring employees. If they can perform at the same level per cost, that would be a different story but then they would have to outperform the male applicants.

In theory, yes. In practice, no. Because what happens in reality is that you get a few women who really do have merit. But because they now exist somewhere, even if it's 1:1000 and there's none in 1000 miles, every fire station is going to be required to have facilities to accommodate these theoretical female fire fighters who may not even exist in the county.

And it sucks for those who want to do it and are capable of doing it. But it's not the taxpayers responsibility to subsidize their dream job either. And that's before "I'm offended" lawsuits, maternal leave, and a whole host of additional costs that aren't benefitting anyone but the employee. Despite current wisdom, making employees feel validated is not the point of hiring employees.

In theory, yes. In practice, no. Because what happens in reality is that you get a few women who really do have merit. But because they now exist somewhere, even if it's 1:1000 and there's none in 1000 miles, every fire station is going to be required to have facilities to accommodate these theoretical female fire fighters who may not even exist in the county.

And it sucks for those who want to do it and are capable of doing it. But it's not the taxpayers responsibility to subsidize their dream job either. And that's before "I'm offended" lawsuits, maternal leave, and a whole host of additional costs that aren't benefitting anyone but the employee.