From: "CE" 

On Mar 28, 9:24 am, "CE"  wrote:
> On Mar 28, 8:43 am, "Joseph Meehan" 
> wrote:
>
> >     Are you just a Troll or do you really believe that 1950 stuff?
>
> What 1950s' stuff? This is the way it is in 2007.

Here are just two facts for you. According to the United States Fire
Association, there were an estimated 1,136,650 firefighters in the United
States in 2005 (career: 313,300, volunteer: 823,350). According to a web
site for women in firefighting services, there are about 6,200 women
currently work as full-time, career firefighters and officers in the United
States and another 40,000 women estimated to be volunteer firefighters in
that country.

That means that even as recently as 2005, less than five percent of all
firefighters were women. Among career firefighters, the percentage is even
lower, with less than two percent of career firefighters in the United
States being women.

Given these statistics, is it really an outdated notion to consider men as
protectors of women and children when it comes to fighting fires?

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