Although, for the sake of fairness, any woman or man who can carry the weight and walk the walk, let em go. I knew a guy in high school who could bench nearly twice his weight.
Of course, that still doesn't solve the problem of men trying to protect the women in their unit. It's still a distraction. I believe same sex units, men only and women only are the way to go. If we had that, the women could afford a few looser standards. They'd be fighting next to their own.
Irrelevant. We don't admit genders to the armed forces, we admit individuals, so averages really mean nothing here. Each individual recruit will go through an elaborate screening process. If it's true, as posted earlier that 5'4" and 145 pounds is genuinely to small to be effective as a Marine (for this example) then surely the policy admitting 4'10" 96 pound men needs to be changed. It wouldn't even be difficult. Overnight, it could be changed to 5'8" and 170 if that's what is desired.