But when I came in the zoo business in 1963, the keeper force was 100% male. There weren’t any ladies in it. And the men said, “A woman can’t do this job. They don’t have the strength.” Well the women are doing this job. They’re doing an outstanding job. And in fact, majority of our applicants today are women with college degrees. I think we have more women keepers at St. Louis Zoo than we have men right now. They’re expanding in the professional forces as well as you see the director of the Disney Animal Kingdom is a woman.
