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Originally Posted by Chanak The big change here would be removing all barriers to women in combat roles. The barriers keep women who are otherwise physically qualified for the job from doing it. Removing the barrier should not = changing standards so *any* female, regardless of upper body strength and stamina, can do it. The *requirements* of the combat role are what should determine fitness for combat, not gender, as it currently does. |
This is very important to stress I think. The argument that this and that kind of work requires a specific type of talen or trait should mean you select people on that talent or trait, not that you select people on correlates to that talen or trait. An average swede probably have higher chance to have an engineering exam than an average person coming from a small congelese village. That doesn't meen you should only hire swedes for enginering jobs, instead you should hire people with engineering exams for engineering jobs.
Another thing that is worth pointing out is that many cultures, historically and more recently use, and have used, women in warfare as soon as a situation gets desperate enough. There is ofcourse also many examples of culture acting against this, but it is not like the entire middle age never saw women fight.