Women accepted in Spanish fire service
Bobby Halton’s “We Have a Seat for Everyone at the Table” (Editor’s Opinion, February 2010) made me look immediately for the keyboard. I doubt that U.S. males are any more “macho” than Spanish males. Spaniards have a centuries’ old tradition of being more macho than any other males on the face of the planet. This “macho-hispano- celtiberico” (historical ascendancy of Spaniards over some 4,000 years) hasn’t been a great obstacle to the incorporation of women into the Spanish fire service, although it hasn’t made the road any smoother, either.
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