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My experience with women in the military:

A senior E-6 paints the lines in the parking lot because the paint fumes made the 3 females, E-3 to E-5, nauseous.

Two E-6 personnel are about to get discharged, both refusing to sign extensions they had agreed to for a PCS move. The male gets an RE-4 reenlistment code, the female gets an RE-3P. She got pregnant just before the deadline for signing the extension. She told me she planned it.

I was a recruiter for 16 years, 4 active duty and 12 reserve. In recruiting there was production and support. Production was under a great deal of pressure to make goals and worked as long as it took to do it. Support people worked 8-5 five days a week. I had to work for a female who had made chief working in support. She had never been a production recruiter, and was an obvious equal opportunity advancement.

The command master chief walks into a meeting of Recruiters in Charge, the senior enlisted of each recruiting office, and announces that there aren’t enough women in the meeting, despite the fact that we had almost no female recruiters from which to promote to RINC. Women did not want to be production recruiters. It was hard.

We were a female heavy command, and I, uh, um, “dated” 6 or 7 of them so there was that.