The very tests you are talking about are the ones that the woman wanted changed. I remember this because they showed the men performing the test. They had one of those little training towers, and the applicants had to carry the hose.
Looking at the website, I see that the judge ordered the tests to be changed in 1982. Since I was born in 1980, I doubt that I would remember watching 60 Minutes prior to this judges decision.
She was upset that these, now lowered standards, weren't low enough, and that if a woman could not perform the basic tasks that a fireman needed to do, that machines should be made to perform them for her.
"It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side." -- Frank Zappa