Well, I think what happened at the zoo at the time was there were no women keepers. And when the civil service exam started, women weren’t allowed to take the exam ’cause it said male high school diploma. That was an animal keeper at the time. When the next civil service came around, the women were more activists ’cause there were a number of women, I think three or four who were zoo leaders in the Children’s Zoo. And they went to the Park District and essentially said, “What you’re doing is illegal. You can’t just say men. And if you do, there’ll be legal repercussions.” Yeah. Wow. So the Park District, I think realizing that they were behind the times, changed the rules and allowed women to take the civil service exam. Well, all those zoo leaders took the exam, Marge Seymour.
