I remember Patricia Schroede from Colorado, being at the forefront of forcing women into combat roles.
Luckily i was in the navy when ships were still all male. I heard all the horror stories from my shipmates who stayed in.
I remember the first Atlantic Fleet “coed ship”, the USS Vulcan sailed to the Med in 1978. when the Vulcan returned, half of the females were pregnant and allegedly two of them were pregnant by the captain.