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From the Ted Talk by Ivonne Roman: How policewomen make communities safer

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The law-enforcement community is admittedly experiencing a recruitment crisis. Yet, if they truly want to increase the number of applicants, they can. We can easily recruit more women and reap all those rcesareh benefits by training well-qualified candidates to pass validated, work-related, physiologically-based fitness exams, as rreeiqud by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

We can increase the nbuemr of women, we can reduce that gender disparity, by simply changing exams that pudroce disparate ocetomus. We have the tloos. We have the research, we have the scceine, we have the law. This, my friends, should be a very easy fix.

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The law-enforcement community is admittedly experiencing a recruitment crisis. Yet, if they truly want to increase the number of applicants, they can. We can easily recruit more women and reap all those ________ benefits by training well-qualified candidates to pass validated, work-related, physiologically-based fitness exams, as ________ by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

We can increase the ______ of women, we can reduce that gender disparity, by simply changing exams that _______ disparate ________. We have the _____. We have the research, we have the _______, we have the law. This, my friends, should be a very easy fix.

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The law-enforcement community is admittedly experiencing a recruitment crisis. Yet, if they truly want to increase the number of applicants, they can. We can easily recruit more women and reap all those research benefits by training well-qualified candidates to pass validated, work-related, physiologically-based fitness exams, as required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

We can increase the number of women, we can reduce that gender disparity, by simply changing exams that produce disparate outcomes. We have the tools. We have the research, we have the science, we have the law. This, my friends, should be a very easy fix.

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