I was on the faculty at West Point when women were appointed to the Corps of Cadets. Physical requirements were adjusted to accommodate female cadets, eventually most were applied to all of the cadets, including males. It’s easy to do in a peacetime training environment. Combat experience since then have demonstrated that some of those adjustments were bad ideas, but political factors overruled the facts of combat.
Combat units adjusted themselves. In most units, female soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen will be found in positions better suited to their capabilities. More in battalion headquarters, fewer humping mortar tubes or Javelins. The same thing happened in the corporate world. The HR department is dominated by women, the Engineering Department not so much.
Very true words.
My ex-BIL was in the last all-male class at the Air Force academy. They wanted to have LCWB engraved on their class rings, but someone found out and nixed it. LCWB stood for Last Class With Balls.
“The same thing happened in the corporate world. The HR department is dominated by women, the Engineering Department not so much.”
I think we greatly underestimate the degree of harm done by female-dominated HR departments to our economy and our society.