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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
In today's world it would be called personning. No Seamen or seawomen anymore.
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Crewing. And seafarers. COMMERCIAL SHIPPING FTW! Office policies applied to the maritime world! W0000t!
Seriously, some merchant mariners still bitch about having to work with women (Stewards and cooks are fine; oilers, somehow... You need dangly bits to read gauges, I guess), and they've been around for a while. I don't know why, but generally, the louder someone moans about it, the more rooted in "tradition" they are. Tradition: Because if it's newer than me, it sucks.
Seriously, the only issue is privacy. If she's too stupid to use the pill or a pregnancy test, she shouldn't be anywhere near military hardware, anyway.
There's also the statistical fact that women usually have shorter careers at sea; but I don't see how that fact can be used in light of government's anti-discrimination policies.