Originally posted here by Mankan
Also, when talking about female police officers. Don't you think it's right to have lower physical standars for women so that more women apply? I'm sure that more women it the police force is a good thing. From a psychosocial standpoint or somethign. But I might be wrong.
in what way could it possibly be better to have a police force that, on average, cant run 1.5 miles as fast as it could if the requirements were the same for both sexes? is a slower poliece force somehow helpfull? is a weaker(weight lifting wise) poliece force somehow benificial?

other than that, i dont see any psychosocial problems with having it predomininatly male. i mean i went to an all male HS and had VERY limitied interactions with girls at all durring those 4 years...did that somehow screw me up? not that i know of. did that screw up my father(who went to the same school 30 years before i did)? not that i know of. does working in a nearly completely male workplace(he's a programmer) screw up my father? not that i know of.

i guess my point is that having more or less interaction with the oposite sex doesnt really matter all that much in the end; all that really matters is getting the job done.

oh yes, and let me throw this back at you: who would you rather have write/desigh your antivirus and firewall? the person who got the job because they were the best, or the woman who whas hired in order to fix the "psychosocial" situation in the workplace....i think the answer is clear.