RE: B Ark Colonist and Colonial Industry... [LONG[

At 10:59 AM +1100 2/4/02, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
>
>If that is the sole reason then you're mistakenly chopping off half
your
>viable work force. Women have been working side by side men in
scientific
>research stations for decades and have managed to avoid "the problem"
if the
>situation requires it - look at Antarctica for instance, there may not
be a
>50:50 split there, but that's because women chose not to apply due to
the
>restrictions placed on them, not because they are barred in the first
place.

Agreed. And if they are working as infantry and shipboard crewmen, 
then likely that whole pregnant while on duty thing that makes so 
many old phartes uncomfortable about people lacking Y chromosomes 
working in their old jobs.

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