[JudgemAll]

Well, what is needed is penetrating punches and good situational awareness. Force and speed of men is useful in the former, but also in the latter, because although force can be leveraged against by the oponent's pivot, once hit hard, someone is destablilized and the other has a better situational awareness than the other.

So a woman can damage the situational awareness of a man by striking him first and leveraging out his movements, but in the end this requires higher situational awareness work for her and her lack of strength diminishes her ability to reduce situational of her opponent. Weaker subjects in fact merely touch intead of hit and thus help the opponent get guided. In other words when you touch or hit your opponent, you better have done it hard enough and well placed enough - a forciori when moving.

Strength is not all in combat, a good scalable situational awareness and "operating system" are important to combine forces. However trying to substitute strength with good situational awareness is a gamble, because higher situational awareness work, while being beneficial, is also a greater work load and can make hits ineffective.

[JudgemAll]

I must add that a group of women against fewer men could become an effective scaled fighting force, however it always will make their force more complex and less reliable, requiring more intensive training than men's, something they cannot handle. It's just too much.

[JudgemAll]

However trying to substitute strength with good situational awareness is a gamble, because higher situational awareness work, while being beneficial, is also a greater work load and can make hits ineffective.

Note also that men are not situational and geometrical defficient compared to women either, so as equals there, men win with strength obviously. Women win with sluty politics, deception and chance. Women are more masterly in stealth than in brute strength.

[G Larry]

For self defense for women I suggest tae kwon glock.