Dirty Harry on feminism and women's quotas [video]

It looked liked a fairly straight-forward example of how systemic sexism forced a female officer who wanted to be on street duty into record keeping.

If time on the 100 yard dash were that important to policing, it would be part of the physical requirements - requirements that the woman would have had to pass in order to get to this stage in the interview process.

For example, https://www.uscp.gov/police-officer-training-preparing-physi... says their Physical Abilities Test - which includes a 375 slalom run - must be finished in 3m52s and "The time is the same for both males and females regardless of age."

Recall too that Kathrine Switzer was assaulted in 1967 for being a woman running in the Boston Marathon. Women at the time were deemed "physiologically incapable" or "too fragile" to run a marathon.

That's only 4 years before Dirty Harry came out, and would have definitely been part of general cultural awareness. Note that the portrayed candidate would have started on the force even before Switzer's real-life run.

Also, you'll notice there was a men's quota too - 5 men and 3 women.

How's she supposed to get a misdemeanor or felony arrest if cops like Harry keep her at her desk?

Are there any examples of companies that hire for "diversity alone"? My understanding is that is not usually the case.

Putting aside the fact that most occupations are not life or death (like in law enforcement)...A trend we see in one sex (especially men, I'm a man), 0 diversity organizations with power is tremendous abuse and/or corruption. Would the church have dealt with its child abuse problem much earlier if ~50% of the staff at every level were women?

Perhaps an interesting exercise would be to name some historically all male businesses, organizations or institutions that haven't run into these issues or scandals... Can you name any?

I don't believe 100% female orgs are immune. There seems to be an unofficial checks and balances system that is introduced when diversity is part of the picture.