Charlie Fox India made the point I wanted to hear. "What's the big deal?"
Making a point of the difference between men and women does nothing for the cause of equality. Political correctness so often results in the ridiculing of the groups it sets out to protect.
Qualifications, ability, suitability.
All my respect goes out to a female colleague who turned down a press event featuring the company's first all female crew.
And if anyone has me down as a chauvinistic tyrant, I'm with Kipling. "The female of HER species is more deadly than the male!"