Little policewomen in NSW have equality, goes under the name 'GLOCK'.

Yes, pull out the glock and find yourself knee deep in paperwork.

I'd be happy to work with onthebeach's logic, on one condition: it applies to men as well as women.

If there are some jobs women shouldn't be in, then there are that are clearly inappropriate for men.

I'd put investment banking high on the list of jobs where men should be banned. My evidence:
www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904. You have to pay to download this (it's worth it!) (See next post for a sample).

The male behaviour that got the world into the GFA is far more dangerous to us all than the problems if it takes two female Paramedics to lift a patient.

Who decides? well, men can determine areas women should be excluded from, as long as women have the final say on what men can and can't do.

Wall Street on the Tundra:

"Back in 2001, as the Internet boom turned into a bust, M.I.T.’s Quarterly Journal of Economics published an intriguing paper called “Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment.” The authors, Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, gained access to the trading activity in over 35,000 households, and used it to compare the habits of men and women. What they found, in a nutshell, is that men not only trade more often than women but do so from a false faith in their own financial judgment. Single men traded less sensibly than married men, and married men traded less sensibly than single women: the less the female presence, the less rational the approach to trading in the markets.

One of the distinctive traits about Iceland’s disaster, and Wall Street’s, is how little women had to do with it. Women worked in the banks, but not in the risktaking jobs. As far as I can tell, during Iceland’s boom, there was just one woman in a senior position inside an Icelandic bank. Her name is Kristin Petursdottir, and by 2005 she had risen to become deputy C.E.O. for Kaupthing in London. “The financial culture is very male-dominated,” she says. “The culture is quite extreme. It is a pool of sharks. Women just despise the culture.” Petursdottir still enjoyed finance. She just didn’t like the way Icelandic men did it, and so, in 2006, she quit her job. “People said I was crazy,” she says, but she wanted to create a financial-services business run entirely by women. To bring, as she puts it, “more feminine values to the world of finance.”

Today her firm is, among other things, one of the very few profitable financial businesses left in Iceland. After the stock exchange collapsed, the money flooded in. A few days before we met, for instance, she heard banging on the front door early one morning and opened it to discover a little old man. “I’m so fed up with this whole system,” he said. “I just want some women to take care of my money.”

You are right Suse, men should & can deal with female cops. Unfortunately so can the male crooks, all too easily.

Our cops tell me that apart from the odd butch lady cop, who can get very nasty, too many lady cops hesitate just that bit too long, before using the Taser or gun, endangering themselves & their fellow officers.

Evidently our bikie gangs have quite enjoyed being policed by ladies.

Is Mise is right OTB.
A gun shot bullet stops someone just as easily if shot by a male or a female police officer, surely?

If you don't know the difference between a male midwife attending to a woman post birth, and a female midwife, then you aren't very bright.

It's all very well having a male Doctor or Obstetrician checking you briefly during pregnancy or labour, as opposed to getting down to the 'nitty gritty' of pre and post natal long term care needs.

Give me a female police officer to protect me in a violent situation any time!