| Ok, here is my view:
The traditional western gender roles are sociocultural conditioned, which means when society change, the gender roles will change. Women are not genetically determined to show more emotions than men, neither do they have more emotions. This means that military combat training will not have a different effect on women than men on the emotional level.
A much more valid question IMO would be to look at the real biological differences. Women are needed for reproduction, men is not really. Sperm can be frozen, and the sperm from one man can fertilise many women if needed. Imagine a situation like WWII, when an entire generation of men died in the UK, Germany, Russia...what if all those men would have been women? It would likely have caused serious reproduction problems.
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