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Spent time in Israel this year, and everyone, both sexes does national service at 18. You are then called up (men) for amontha year til ou are 49, women until they have kids (which is a big pressure in Jewish families).
When you travel about, you see lot of military, and there's a good few heavily guarded checkpoints on motorways (funny that) - it was weird seeing young women, tooled up to the hilt, but also, strangely stimulating.,,,,
As for women in it why not? Cannon fodder should be equal an opportunities vocation.
If they want it and they can pass the tests then fair enough, equality and all that.
I suspect this is a non-issue however. I don't see many feminist rants bemoaning the lack of opportunities for women to get themselves blown up. I can't imagine there'll be a sudden rush of ladies enlisting, but we'll see I guess
The same with the infantry, if someone wants to join then good luck to them regardless of gender or anything. If someone can do the job then let them.
We don't see many comments in the media saying there should be more women coal miners - I assume there are some but I don't see the big deal either way. I'm just glad to see someone in employment.
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I look at the difference in outlook and attitude to equality and diversity in my kids' generation, compared to mine, and its encouraging. So many things that we as kids would have thought worthy of piss taking and being weird, they simply accept as no big deal. It will take a while, but I reckon we'll get there.
If you think how far we've come with homosexuality in recent years - illegal in 1967, lesbians didn't actually get recongnised as something that could exist, women not being allowed in pubs, just a couple of examples. We are getting there.
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As an analogy - I haven't seen any posts about how many Muslims, Christians or Jews are on the board when we discuss religion or the politics of the Middle East. So why are women a different category?