>Just as long as you don't conclude that therefore half of all firefighers must be women since women constitute half of the general population!<
Never. That's silly. There are a few women with the size and upper body strength to carry an adult out of a burning building, but not many. If I need rescuing I don't want a 109 pound 5 foot woman to drag my half-dead body out of the building.
But I don't want to be denied even an interview for a position requiring logical, linear, spatial thinking, either, just because many of my sisters are lost souls at that kind of thing.
Yeah, that's a tough one. After all, notwithstanding the fact that "the race is not to the swift," that is the way people want to bet 'em . . .But if you can get a hearing, you will have the advantage of helping the company meet affirmative action goals.