My point was that in the police for instance, they don't change the entrance criteria to enable more women to join. Gove and his cronies have raised the entry standard for civilians in the case of needing a degree yet lowered the standard for ex military. Crazy.
My other half is a teacher and one of the teaching assistants at her school has not been accepted to do a PGCE course because she doesn't have a Masters. Unfortunately this is the hypocrisy of the current government. People with classroom experience are not allowed to train to teach but people...