Well of course they are not silent at all. Insisting on women in those occupations and getting tests "rigged" to somehow let women appear as capable, by reducing the requirements of everyone. They have to do this in the UK because it turns out to have been illegal to have different easier tests for women. The RAF recently came a cropper by trying to get round this by simply preventing white Male recruits completing the tests! Because to let them do so would mean they'd have lots of qualified Male recruits! As you say it is completely contradictory. Yet somehow no one challenges this.