The Russian Army is notorious for its history of mass rapes where everywhere it deployed.
Putting these girls in small sniper units probably saved them from a great deal of discomfort.
This could have been just Stalinist propaganda. There’s no telling. The USSR liked to brag that women had made great advances under socialism and so there were women pilots and women shock workers etc. etc. How much of it was true is debatable.
I remember what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in “The Gulag Archipelago”. Solzhenitsyn was an artillery officer in WW II.
He said the orders in the Red Army were that “German women could be raped and shot” while Polish and Russian girls could be ‘stripped naked and chased around’.
The women were ‘equal’ in the Soviet Union, but they could definitely be treated bad, too.