A few days ago this post noted: “According to Women in the Fire Service, Inc., the progress that women are making in entering the profession is slow. While in Minneapolis and San Francisco women make up 16% and 15% of firefighters, respectively, and women are 13% of the firefighters in Miami, there are fewer than 100 female firefighters in all of New York State.” The geographic disparities seemed interesting, and anyone with even a passing familiariity with employment discrimination law is aware of the various forms of resistance that women seeking employment as firefighters have encounted (see e.g. this, this, this, this, this and this). So even given the generalized hostility toward anything “feminist” that is so evident in the blogosphere, this reaction was discouraging, especially if the blog’s author is actually the lawyer he or she purports to be.
