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Highway Patrol, Fire Fighters and many other professions had height and physical requirements that were lowered because they were found to discriminate against women.
My wife tried out for an airport position in the 70s. One of the requirements was to drag a sandman a required distance and move him to the other side of a barrier. She's a pretty tough chick but couldn't do it so she wasn't hired. The reasoning was that if an emergency happened the employee would need to be able to move someone out of danger.
That is no longer required - so either they found a machine that will do that or they lowered the standards for women. Well , maybe they don't care anymore about moving people out of the way of danger.
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