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Women's World

bobbieinok

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1. BBC story and links there v interesting. Only 7% of English, AND US firefighters are women

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 10:57 PM

Jan 2019

IIRC 1 of earliest women firefighters was in Iowa City. She had a v difficult time fighting prejudice from men in the dept.

BBC story has link to an article about a US training camp run by women firefighters for young women who want to find out if they can do the job

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BBC story and links there v interesting. Only 7% of English, AND US firefighters are women bobbieinok Jan 2019 #1