[octex]

It’s a common misconception that Israel sends women into combat alongside men or in all female units like the Soviets did in WWII. It does neither. Israel has barred women from combat since 1950.
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I recall seeing a program on the MIL channel a year or two ago that showed that some of the best snipers in the Russian Army during WW II were women. They were deadly and racked up many kills of Germans!

[SoCal Pubbie]

Yes, and Stalin used women as pilots, machine gunners, tank drivers, and in partisan forces too. They were never infantry per se and after the war they were no longer utilized in the armed forces of the Soviet Union.

Both the Soviet and Israeli experiments with women in combat were born out of far leftist/communist ideology that strove to erase gender lines and establish complete egalitarianism. I guess if that's your model...