My stepmother worked for the State Department. She was a great employee, but shortly before retirement, she was offered a promotion to a supervisory position, and she refused, even though it would have meant a step up in here pension.
She didn’t want to deal with employees who were uncontrollable due to the civil service protections. I said to her, why doesn’t she take the promotion anyway and just relax and get the bigger pension. But she didn’t want to do that.
My wife did not take the chair position in her department for that same reason. So they gave her the higher grade anyway so she could fill in on a temporary basis.
She was the first female psychiatrist at a large VA with 29 psychiatrists on staff.
If anyone ever examines the number of women in the military with PTSD as related to their overall percentage, they would never put them in combat situations.
Their rate of PTSD is about double that of men in the military.