Originally Posted by
just another jocky
Jeez, so relieved you are no longer with us.
Did it ever occur to you that female recruiting is a high priority as there aren't many joining (probably because of the perception of attitudes like yours) and so showing her talking to potential female recruits (who cares what clothes they wore or what fools might try to deduce about their religion from their clothes) might further help the cause.
Positive discrimination is very important in the short term, it means that what is currently perceived as a deviation from the normal does not have to be so and that such aspirations are not unusual and are attainable by groups who would otherwise perhaps feel disadvantaged.
That said IMHO there should be no change of standards required to meet quotas. It is those very standards that inspire and that everyone who is attracted to our profession strive to achieve and maintain.