When I was at Jump School in ‘76, the Black Hats never dropped the female officers for pushups. Butterbars like me were dropped at least a half dozen times a day, on top of the hundreds of pushups all of us did as part of training.
I did Airborne in 1986. Females PT’d and ran separately. One time they forced us to run coed and it was a freaking nightmare. Men were tripping over themselves because they couldn’t run that slowly.
There were two sets of standards from day one.