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== Real Life ==
* Reversed in Federal Civil Service in the USA, with some agencies like the Forest Service being 70% or more female due to Affirmative Action. Ironically due to executive meddling of another kind in 1993, qualifications were waived for the typical middle and high level manager in most agencies, resulting in more than half of Federal Civil Service not meeting the educational requirements and/or time in grade required in 2011. The typical situation under the Clinton Administration was to give National Forests, BLM Districts, Field Offices and similar high level positions to secretaries and aides, raising them as many as 11 paygrades overnight. It's not uncommon for entire offices to be women and to have them composed of "scientists", "engineers" and so on that do not have a degree in the field they represent.
** Defied in Federal Civil Service in Canada, by the simple expedient of not listing the applicants' sex or gender on the application forms that the hiring boards get to see. The best-qualified people are the ones considered for every position, be they male, female, or other. After a decade (specifically, the first decade of the 2000s), the gender gap has shrunk to the point where The Smurfette Principle no longer applies, but
* [[Venus]], the only planet named after a goddess. Asteroids started off better off, with all of the first ten asteroids discovered named after goddesses.
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