Women in Combat

Men and women should be given equal opportunities to serve for their nations in the military. Throughout history women keep making appearance in the military only hoping to improvise. Their physicality continues to reaches the climax. Their mentality is different from the men, making them more useful in certain areas. Aside from physicality and their mentality, there is concerns over sexual misconduct, harassment, and safety of women. There are broad statics showing the difference between the two (female and male) in education, professionalism, and salary.

Domesticated skills such as needlework and knitting require nimble hands and fingers, which were a distinct advantage in women’s war work, especially when it came to wiring bombs (levis, 79).

By chance, a female instructor was possibly the the first plane in the sky to encounter Japanese fighter plane[s] during the attack on pearl harbor (Dnn. “The Military Selective Service Acts Exemption of Women: it is time to end it”).

With this being said, women have certain capabilities to provide that some men may not be able to provide the military. Over history women have shown bravery, loyalty, and desire to maintain a male's role. However women are still limited on jobs they can join.

Captain Katie Petronio states “... In addition combat units engage in activities designed to suit mens capabilities. Women serving in integrated units will suffer higher injury rate as a result of this.”

Major Eleanor Taylor says “It is possible to calibrate recruitment and training for muscle building can also be used to reduce female injury rates.” (Petronio, Katie; Taylor “Women in combat Pros and Cons_Sisters in Arms”)

Tia Ghose comments :

However, women may have an edge in some physical tasks. Because women usually have more body fat and may be better at burning fat as energy early on in exertion, they could have better endurance than men, according to a 2001 study in the American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology and Metabolism.Men have more muscle mass and greater levels of circulating testosterone, on average, which also means they use more energy than women do. And men's muscles tend to fatigue more easily than women, possibly because women recruit muscle groups to share the load more efficiently, according to a 2003 study in theJournal of Applied Physiology.

Yes, women are not built like the men that serve, but there is an abundance of training that can build a woman’s strength. Most of the time, a women can know when her body has had enough, but the