City governments waste a fortune in expensive, dedicated efforts to get some unqualified female into their fire departments, the military doesn’t have the time or the need to waste time and energy searching for a possible exception who can squeak through, it doesn’t help us at all, it only hurts us.
There is no reason to search high and low for a way to get a single female mixed into the supply needs and social cohesion of a unit.
I discovered how costly it was to hire women into men’s jobs.
Women get into man’s job, like cop or heavy equipment operator.
Within a short period of time most women are flagging traffic or sitting at a desk inside.
Men, when injured or unwell, used to rotate into the easy jobs like flagger. It also kept them rotated and less stress on the body. Kept them earning too.
Now thos places are taken and the guys have no rotation to go to, and they have to go out on disability.