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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: women maintain helicopters better!
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Date: 13 Mar 91 00:33:38 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
A long article on helicopter combat performance in the 28 Jan issue of
Aviation Week makes one surprising observation:  helicopters with female
maintenance crew chiefs consistently have better Gulf combat readiness than
ones with male crew chiefs!  Nobody is quite sure why.  Constant intensive
cleaning work has proved necessary to keep filters and air passages free
of fine sand, so "maybe women are just more attuned to cleanliness".  The
other obvious possibility is that want to prove they can do the job and
hence are trying harder.
-- 
"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
for the general public."     -S. Harris |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry