Kevinf
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At my company, the only time anyone cares about gender is for bariatric situations.
Our female EMTs are fine as long as they get assigned to a kneeling ambulance. But if they end up on a non-kneeler, everyone in dispatch regards that unit as inferior. As a result, that unit gets dispatched wherever possible in order to keep the superior units (bariatric capable, ALS, etc.) in reserve for ER calls.
So, from the female EMT's point of view, being assigned to a non-kneeling ambulance means running more calls per day than average.
I don't know what a kneeling ambulance is, care to elaborate?