The Dilemma of Being a Woman Fire Fighter
THE DILEMMA OF BEING A WOMEN FIREFIGHTER
The fire service is not an exclusive men’s only club. We represent the cross section of our culture and in a perfect world, would treat everyone equally. There are hundreds of laws generated and passed to protect, women, minorities, religious beliefs and freedoms, age, certain disabilities, gender beliefs and lifestyles and our veterans. Every day our industry violates those very laws designed to protect those covered under the law. Claims based on the violations are costing fire departments millions of dollars every year and ruins careers and dreams of those chosen to become firefighters.
One of those protected classes are women firefighters and based on the case law experiences, the fire service place women firefighters at a disadvantage when they enter the fire houses generally based on gender and not on the ability to do the job. This observation is based on the innumerable lawsuits brought by women against their fire departments, firefighters and officers based on the boorish, egregious, discriminatory and continuous illegal conduct against our women firefighters during the hiring process, the probationary period, promotions and throughout their careers as firefighters.
When will we stop treating women firefighters differently than men firefighters?
I know that most of you will be outraged by this broad brush characterization of the fire service as it relates to women firefighters. If you are, you should continue to read this article as you play an important role in stopping this behavior. If not, you should continue to read this entire article to see how changing your behavior towards women firefighters may prevent this litigation.
Yes, there are men and people of color who suffer discrimination and yes they file lawsuits, but the comparable number (men v. minorities v. women) is heavily weighted toward women firefighters filing a lawsuit based on the reasons we will discuss below.
The most recent outrageous and
The fire service is not an exclusive men’s only club. We represent the cross section of our culture and in a perfect world, would treat everyone equally. There are hundreds of laws generated and passed to protect, women, minorities, religious beliefs and freedoms, age, certain disabilities, gender beliefs and lifestyles and our veterans. Every day our industry violates those very laws designed to protect those covered under the law. Claims based on the violations are costing fire departments millions of dollars every year and ruins careers and dreams of those chosen to become firefighters.
One of those protected classes are women firefighters and based on the case law experiences, the fire service place women firefighters at a disadvantage when they enter the fire houses generally based on gender and not on the ability to do the job. This observation is based on the innumerable lawsuits brought by women against their fire departments, firefighters and officers based on the boorish, egregious, discriminatory and continuous illegal conduct against our women firefighters during the hiring process, the probationary period, promotions and throughout their careers as firefighters.
When will we stop treating women firefighters differently than men firefighters?
I know that most of you will be outraged by this broad brush characterization of the fire service as it relates to women firefighters. If you are, you should continue to read this article as you play an important role in stopping this behavior. If not, you should continue to read this entire article to see how changing your behavior towards women firefighters may prevent this litigation.
Yes, there are men and people of color who suffer discrimination and yes they file lawsuits, but the comparable number (men v. minorities v. women) is heavily weighted toward women firefighters filing a lawsuit based on the reasons we will discuss below.
The most recent outrageous and