They did discover that women could make fantastic snipers and used many in that role.
BTW: Dr Ruth Westheimer was an Israeli army sniper.
Here is a beautiful Russian sniper from WW2. she has a Mosin Nagant rifle with original scope.. A dear friend of mine gave me one of these rifles...wish I had an original scope for it :-/
*Some* women can shoot, like anyone. Shooting well does not a sniper make. Snipers are often dropped off miles away from their chosen overwatch spot and hoof in, carrying all the shit they need on their backs. I have a friend who did 2 tours in Iraq and 1 in Afghanistan — in his words, the military is “strung the f### out.” He was trained as a FiSTer, but ended up spotting for snipers on more than one occasion because there just weren't enough grunts on the ground and somebody said “hey look at him, he's trained to observe and spot shit. Use him.” Walk miles in the heat with 100 pounds of gear, dig a hole, live in it with 2 other dudes for 3 days, 7 days, whatever, rinse-repeat. Putting women in some combat positions thinking that they won't end up overlapping with duties they were never intended for is foolhardy. Further, snipers are not some rarefied breed who always get to sit comfortably in a nest and pick off bad guys from a safe distance, then fly off in style in their own personal chopper pick-up. They toil as hard as any other grunt, and need to be able pick up and carry a buddy who just had his leg blown off just as quickly as any other grunt. I have no military experience, I'm just repeating, verbatim, what I've been told by 3 guys -- my dad with a Combat Action Ribbon, my friend and former boss with a Combat Action Badge, a purple heart and permanent disability, and a coworker with a Ranger Tab and a Combat Infantryman Badge. Make of it what you will.
The soviets were willing to use women in combat, including as snipers. They were also willing to attack the enemy with unarmed human waves. The Israelis tried putting women in combat units. They rolled that back, now the only *combat* units Israeli women can serve in are the border guard battalions...More intense than the Us Border Patrol, I assume, but not frontline grunts in the least.