ETA: re the Western states analogy, I mean that the short-handedness matters. If your new British Ministry of Magic has five guys and some sheep, then suddenly hiring women in the lower civil service ranks looks like a much better idea than when you're integrated into the relatively vast Muggle government. So maybe in fact women are perfectly suited to careers doing research for the guys actually drafting legislative bills and we just never realized; what a convenient discovery!
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Date: 2012-09-24 01:02 am (UTC)