Fact 1 ?!?
Very, very, very tenuous IMHO.
1 - By opening the job up to the widest possible audience, we get to pick the absolute cream of the crop. If the selection people are doing their job right, the women flying in the RAF today are BETTER PILOTS than the men 'whose places' they took.
2 - That we have BETTER PILOTS is of far more consequence than the fact that some of those pilots might not be as good at digging trenches or whatever.
As a final point, how likely do you think it is that £5m-a-time FJ crew would be sent to the front line to dig trenches or carry stretchers? If things were really getting that desperate, we'd need every last person in the country to be fighting - woman or not.
Last edited by Nearly there!; 28th Nov 2002 at 20:38.