It is a story about men in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
There will, by necessity, be very few women in the story, because there were very few women at forward operating bases of the Army Air Corps in World War II.
Those women who were there were likely viewed by the young men in the Army Air Corp as young men in the military typically view women. If you want to tell a story, you have to tell the story that happened. If you try to insert 2019 sensibility into a 1943 story, it will not work.
2019 sexual politics is tedious enough. No need to export it to the past. One of the nice things about reading a story from 50 years ago is that you don’t have to wade through all of the modern claptrap. That is why my bookshelf does not have anything published after 1990.
Yet MASH ran for centuries and people didn't get sick of it.
Seventies/Eighties attitudinizing in a Fifties story.
I never read the book, but Altman's film was certainly misogynistic.
Alda's TV series was supposed to be feminist and was very touchy-feely in a way that was rare in the 1950s.