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I feel like it would be best to take the history part of the combat section and put it into the general history section, so that way the reader can be presented with a more complete picture of the history of women in the military/combat more clearly ~ Gloryjones958 —Preceding undated comment added 23:49, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
I plan to add a few paragraphs about women in World War I and World War II. -- Kiyonomcdaniel ( talk) 23:12, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
This article has been fleshed out considerably, but I think it still needs work in thinking about weasel words. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_words Other than that, its pretty good. Asarelah 17:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
The articles on the history of women in the military, and of the current debate in thier role in combat units, have been merged into one single new article.
This article will comprise of two sections:
1: The history
2: The current debate
These changes come after discussion on the peer review page of the original women in combat article, which can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Peer_review/Women_in_combat#.5B.5BUser:oldwindybear.7Coldwindybear.5D.5D -- SGGH 19:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
I wonder if there are issues relating to the treatment of women veterans that can be explored in thier own section of this article? [1]-- SGGH 12:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Women Veterans specially women with PTSD are not being treated equally at the VA Hospitals in Washington DC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.138.70.245 ( talk) 18:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
--Guess what? "Unequal" as in not satisfactorily addressed stems from the VA doesn't have much experience with female aspects of PTSD. Truth is as a generic whole women are "slightly" different physiologically and mentally than men. As a trivial example rape issues are more prevalent for women. End result the VA program fo females can only be improved by gaining knowledge and insight on those aspects of treatment which are different for women than men. Time. Pioneers. Sorry help for first in line sucks. Also your ears are clogged if you think there are not lots of men unhappy with VA solutions. 72.182.8.160 ( talk) 16:24, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The statement that Australia was the second nation to permit women on combat submarines is just plain wrong. For example, the Swedish Navy has had women serving on subs since the 1980's. The fact that all countries' navies except for those of Australia, Norway, Canada and Spain ban women on submarines is also plain wrong. Apart from the aforementioned example of Sweden, the German Navy also permits women on submarines. There are probably more countries (I'm pretty sure the Danish navy permitted women onboard when they operated submarines, which they no longer do.), but those two are the ones I'm completely certain about from the top of my head. // 83.226.220.153 01:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
While i have sofar been unable to find a source for it i think Sweden got its first female submarine officer sometime during the 2nd half of the 1980s, but it may have been early 90s. Anyone who watched the Discovery channel program that reported from one of the first exercises with Gotland and USN knows Sweden certainly has no ban on women on subs. Also its ridiculous to use the USN excuse about "Social reasons include the need to segregate accommodation and facilities" as something generalised, because the cost for Swedish navy to add women on its submarines(and they´re supertiny compared to USN SSNs, and can still remain at sea on patrol for 6+ weeks) is exactly NIL, ZERO, nothing. And it works fine. Today, its uncommon that a subcrew does not have women in it. DW75 ( talk) 01:45, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
http://skargardsbryggan.com/index.lasso?f=3&s=0&n=20&a=517142369&o=&oo= (article in swedish) This article says that Paula Wallenburg served as a sonaroperator in 1995 and has now become the first female submarine commander 15 years later. While this proves that sweden have not had a female commander on a submarine until recently, it really doesn't tell us when the first woman served in any other capacity. Women where first allowed to serve alongside the conscripted males in 1989 and it wasn't until 1994 that they were allowed to do so without any plans to become an officer but that doesn't mean there were any availible positions on a sub during that time or even if there were any women applying before Paula. 212.27.23.71 ( talk) 21:49, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
I have added the paragraph from the submarine article as it seems to contain well-cited information on this topic. A couple of references were destroyed in the copying process but I'm on that now. SGGH speak! 18:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
recently removed 2 unsourced statements in this article: 1) that a US soldier was "abused" by her Iraqi captors, citation please 2) the dubious claim that female MP's are known as "lionesses"
also re-worded the final section about Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, as it was poorly organized and seemed to have been edited down from a longer section
Kaiser187 22:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Col. Kadaffi has what could be a "Amazon" detail serving as his bodyguards. 205.240.144.225 06:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
"Female Marines Train for Iraq Border Security" by Staff Sgt Raymie G. Cruz, 3dMAW
http://www.usmc.mil Cricket316 02:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Added information on Lioness Program to 'Tactical Concerns' section Feb 2011 Kerani ( talk) 17:24, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I think it would be a good idea to set about fixing the references to give titles to each URL rather than leaving the plain html code. SGGH speak! 18:07, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm in the process of editing this page to include a new section on heterosexulization (Women in the military). These are a few of the resources I've located that I am finding to be useful. If anyone else has suggestions or feedback, do let me know. I hope to have my new content posted in the coming weeks!
1. Drohan, E., (2013). CJTF Paladin offers training for female engagement team members. The Official Homepage of the United States Army. Five female U.S Army soldiers are the first to partake in a new training course. The course was designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. All five soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Brigrade, 1st Calvalry Division at Bagram Airfield. The training course lasted for three days and included training in unexploded ordnance awareness, biometrics, forensics, evidence collection, tactical questioning, vehicle and personnel searches, instructions on how homemade explosive devices are made and how to recognize if a device is homemade. Originally the female soldiers were just asked to participate in a basic visual recognition-training course, but later it was decided that the training would be more beneficial to the Female Engagement Team members. The reasoning behind this change was because the members of the Female Engagement Team would be interacting with Afghan women as part of their duties and would be the responding team to analyze any suspicious evidence.
2. Fishel, J. (2013). Military leaders lift ban on women in combat roles. Politics. The ban has finally been lifted on women serving in combat positions. This decision overturned the banned that was placed on women since 1994. Women in the military make up about 15 percent of the force. They have demonstrated their worth in the military and are finally being able to hold the same positions as their male counterparts. This change will open up hundreds of thousands front-line positions for women, some positions possibly even leading to elite commando jobs for women. In recent years, women have taken on roles such as medics, military police, but these roles were never formally assigned until now.
3. Ivarsson, S., Estrada, A.X., Berggren, A.W. (2005). Understanding Men's Attitudes Toward Women in the Swedish Armed Forces. Military Psychology. 12(4), 269-282. The purpose of this article was to examine the attitudes towards women in the military. The sample consisted of 1,320 male officers from the Swedish Armed Forces. It was expected that rank, years of military service, age, education, and sexist beliefs would correlated with the men’s attitudes towards the women in the military. The results showed that men’s attitudes towards women appeared to be positive. But it was a surprise that the results did not show a more positive result than has been discovered as the Swedish society is normally characterized as more egalitarian with respect to women. The positive studies correlated with the respondent’s age, education, rank, years in the service, sexism
4. Lawrence, C., Starr, B. (2013) Military to open comebat jobs to women. Security clearance: CNN. The U.S military is ending the policy of banning women from certain positions in the army. This will end the policy of “no women in units that are tasked with direct combat”. Jobs opportunities will not be available all at once, but with each branch examining the new lift on the ban, jobs will be available as they see fit. Examinations of physical standards and gender-neutral accommodations within combat units will be done every 90 days to report progress. The goal is 2016 for all assessments to be complete and have women fully integrated into all roles in the army. Senator McCain supports the lift on the ban yet he is quoted saying that the move should not change the military. He states that it is critical that the U.S army maintains the same high standards to continue to be the most admired and feared force in the world. Though this lift on the ban will officially allow women to take on these combat role, it will not be the first since women have seen combat. Women have been taking on these roles for quite sometime, it just was never officially recognized.
5. Matthews, M.D., Edner, Morten, G., Laurence, J.H., Rohall, D.E. (2009). Role of group affiliation and gender attitudes toward women in the military. Military Psychology. 21(2), 241-251. doi: 10.1080/08995600902768750 This study serves to examine the attitudes of West Point cadets, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets, and non-military-affiliated students from civilian colleges toward a variety of roles that women may serve in the military. Participants were asked whether they believed a women ‘should’ or ‘should not’ serve various military jobs, such as, jet fighter pilot, truck mechanic, nurse in a combat zone, typist in the Pentagon, commander of a military installation, hand- to-hand combat soldier, jet transport pilot, air defense gunner, and crew member on a combat ship. The results showed that military cadets were less approving of women being assigned to certain military jobs than non-military students. It was also shown that women were more approving than the male counterparts.
6. Sasson, Levy, O. (2011) Research on Gender and the Military in Israel: From a Gendered Organization to Inequality Regimes. Israel Studies Review. 26 (2), 73-98. doi:10.3167/isr.2011.260205 The purpose of this article was to review the research on gender and the military in Israel since the 1970s. It was argued that the research had moved from a binary gendered concept to intersectionality analysis, as well as an emphasis on women as agents of change and resistant. It concluded that even when a change in gender relation occurs, the military world is will only affect a small minority of women soldiers.
7. Young, L.M., Nauta, M.M. (2013) Sexism as a Predictor of Attitudes Toward Women in the Military and in Combat. Military Psychology (American Psychological Association). 25 (2), 166-171. doi:10.1037/h0094958 This article examined four forms of sexist beliefs as predictors of attitudes towards women in the military as well as combat. It was hypothesized that the differences in attitudes toward women in the military and in combat held by military-affiliated and civilian students would be attributable to differences in levels of sexism. 316 students were surveyed via an online survey. The students ranged from the ages of 18-23+. It was revealed that military affiliated college students were more negative towards women in combat than civilian students. But the groups did not differ on attitudes towards women in the military.
8. (2013). Women in the military. Norfolk Daily News This article outlines the important dates in which females were incorporated into the U.S military services. It was not until 1948 that a law was finally passed that permanently made women a permanent part of the military services. In 1976, the first group of women is admitted into a U.S military academy. In 1994 a policy prohibits women from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. Almost twenty years later, in 2013, an order was passed that allowed women the same opportunities as men in the combat zone. It is rumored that women may begin Army Ranger training by mid-2015.
9. (2013). Sisters in Arms: Breaking down barriers and rising to the challenge. The Official Homepage of the United States Army. According to statistics only 15.6 percent of its 1.1 million soldiers are female. Women serve in 95 percent of all army occupations which makes up 15.6 percent of active army. Women only recently were able to take on combat roles in the army. In light of recent job opportunities opening up to females, a new movement has been created. The women of the army call it “Sisters in Arms”. This group was developed in hopes of helping the many female soldiers find their individual voice in the army. The program has spread throughout the Army worldwide.
10. (2013). Reasons why women should not join the military. Business and employment. This articles stands to provide the many reasons why women should not be able to join the military. Physical fitness was among the top reasons why a woman would not be adequate enough to join the military. Health and physiology is another reason that was given. Women are obviously different from men, and this includes the way a women’s body is built and functions. A woman would require more hygienic conditions than their male counterparts. Hormones are another factor that could possibly influence a way a woman does her job. Lastly, sex and sexual harassment is another factor that stands in the way. If you put two sexes in the same area, it ups the possibility of sexual harassment occurring. Sexual relations also impact morale and relations between soldiers. Nicolevnguyen ( talk) 23:10, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
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OK, seriously, I'm in Iraq right now and I've never heard of anyone call a female MP/SF, detainee handler, medic, driver, translater, or ordinary straight-up shooter a "lioness." This sounds like a word coined by a reporter that was never in common usage. Recommend more specific language. Instead of talking about "lionesses" for examples of female combatants, discuss the policy the Air Force has for females in their Security Forces. Or talk about how there are female MPs in every branch. Or site specific examples of females being attached to combat units (not limited to medics).
John Holden ( talk) 16:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
This article seems to ignore the traditional view as women as noncombatants. That is how can we discuss the role of women in combat, if we ignore their role as "innocents" How is the role of women different from men? Men were traditionally the warriors. Societies either had an all male army, or a male and female army. I am not aware of any with an all female army, except the Amazons, a mythical all female race. Women as warriors is unusual, may not unheard of, but not the norm. That needs to be explained in the article. Rds865 ( talk) 00:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
This article also ignores the argument that some honor codes forbid fighting women. Also, men are often considered duty bound to protect women and children. Examples of such as is letting them evacuate first and the phrase innocent women and children, always excludes men. Rds865 ( talk) 00:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
There is no honor in modern day war. The laws set up by the Geneva convention are just that. Laws. Not precepts and codes of honor. Richco07 ( talk) 00:08, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Wow, what a collection of armchair theorists.
The history of societies with such honor codes---and they still exist---shows that they don't react to "violations" like female soldiers by just refusing to fight them. Instead, they consider female soldiers to be an abomination and respond with outrage. No prisoners taken, wounded killed, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.180.83 ( talk) 07:15, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I think this section needs to either be cleaned up or reduced to just a link to the other page. There aren't many examples, and most of them aren't of military or even paramilitary women. Ripley was, I believe, a civilian (maybe merchant marine equivalent), and I believe Michelle Yeoh's characters in Supercop and Tomorrow Never Dies were in the People's Liberation Army. The others, while clearly "action heroes" of one sort or another, have little or no link to formal military organizations. It might be interesting to list more female characters who fit the category, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suzanne de nimes ( talk • contribs) 15:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
FYI, a list of sources on this subject can be found here: [2]. Cla68 ( talk) 04:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Women have been an integral part of the military since early ages. Women have played all sorts of roles including direct combat. Women have been restricted from having an active role in the military on accounts of "weak physique"; in spite of these restrictions, women have continually shown that they can be able soldiers and fight just as well as any other male soldier. Going back in history some of the notable names that come to mind are Joan of Arc who led the battle against the English to end the siege of the City of Orleans or Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi in India who defended her city against the British East India Company at the age of 20. Some other notable names are Catherine Ségurane, Rani Durgawati, Lizzie Compton and many others. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruchiksynjitp ( talk • contribs) 13:13, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I've just re-removed this section from the article. A 33 year old study about the attitudes of soldiers at the time hardly seems likely to still be "perhaps the most effective research in interaction among enlisted men and women" given the social changes and changes to national militaries since then. If this material has any value, its as a snapshot of attitudes at the time. I've posted the material below for discussion. Nick-D ( talk) 09:55, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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I removed the definition you dislike. You are able to provide more recent issues of the problem. -- George Serdechny 10:04, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I've also removed the following section. The citation given for the claim that menstrual periods could cause ineffectiveness for women in ground units is actually about female aircraft ferry pilots in World War II being restricted from flight duties during their periods due to attitudes at the time, and it argues that no accidents were ever actually attributed to the pilot menstruating (it's online here). Nick-D ( talk) 10:05, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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It seems this article has been trolled, as every use of the word combat has been changed to "Kombat" and links to an article on a town in Namibia. Might want to rinse the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.152.218.201 ( talk) 13:14, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
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Forty percent of this article is about women in combat. Is that enough to break that section out into a separate article? We could use WP:Summary Style and leave behind a condensed version of the section. That would make it easier for contributors who want to write about non-combat issues and history, like nurses and the WAVES and Women's Army Corps of WWII. Besides, the debate over women is almost exclusively about the US military. -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 22:53, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Can we get an RS for "permit women to fill active combat roles, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Israel, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland"? -- Robapalooza ( talk) 16:43, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
permeate the early part of this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.193.120 ( talk) 23:13, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
"I just added a section to this article on women's role in combat. The content synthesized a number of research articles and current material on this topic. Please do let me know if you have suggestions or can point to additional material to support this contribution.
Women have been involved in the military since 1775. But their roles were more involved in the fields of nursing, laundering and mending clothing, and cooking for the troops. In 1917 when Loretta Walsh became the first women to enlist. But it was not until 1948 that a law was finally passed that permanently made women a permanent part of the military services. In 1976, the first group of women is admitted into a U.S military academy. According to statistics only 15.6 percent of its 1.1 million soldiers are female. Women serve in 95 percent of all army occupations, which makes up 15.6 percent of active army. In a one-year span, Some 40,000 American military women are deployed during the Gulf War operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. But not a single woman was able to take on any form of combat. In 1994 a policy prohibits women from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. A study conducted by (Matthews et al. 2009) to examine the attitudes of West Point cadets, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets, and non-military-affiliated students from civilian colleges toward a variety of roles that women may serve in the military. The results showed that military cadets were less approving of women being assigned to certain military jobs than non-military students.
New opportunities are starting to open up for female soldiers. Almost twenty years later, in 2013, an order was passed that allowed women the same opportunities as men in the combat zone. Female U.S Army soldiers are being asked to partake in a new training course. The training course was designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. The training will help female soldiers in training such as training in unexploded ordnance awareness, biometrics, forensics, evidence collection, tactical questioning, vehicle and personnel searches, instructions on how homemade explosive devices are made and how to recognize if a device is homemade. It is rumored that women may begin Army Ranger training by mid-2015. This change will open up hundreds of thousands front-line positions for women, some positions possibly even leading to elite commando jobs for women. This will end the policy of “no women in units that are tasked with direct combat”. Jobs opportunities will not be available all at once, but with each branch examining the new lift on the ban, jobs will be available as they see fit. The goal is 2016 for all assessments to be complete and have women fully integrated into all roles in the army. In light of recent job opportunities opening up to females, a new movement has been created. The women of the army call it “Sisters in Arms”. This group was developed in hopes of helping the many female soldiers find their individual voice in the army. The program has spread throughout the Army worldwide. Nicolevnguyen ( talk) 21:26, 15 November 2013 (UTC) Nicolevnguyen ( talk) 22:57, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
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I thought that your section was interesting to read! There were some mistakes I saw as I was reading... My suggestions is that some of the sentences seems a bit choppy and that you should explain more. You should explain alittle more about the order that was passed? I bold the sentence that needs to be change alittle bit since you use the word training 3 times in one sentences. Also, Explain more about the Army Ranger? because I would like to know more about that. Overall, it was nice reading about what is happening in today's world with the Army. :)
In today's world, new opportunities are starting to open up for female soldiers. Almost twenty years later (from what?) in 2013, an order was passed that allowed women the same opportunities as men in the combat zone. Female U.S Army soldiers are being asked to partake in a new training course (what kind of training course?). The training course was designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. The training will help female soldiers in training such as training in unexploded ordnance awareness, biometrics, forensics, evidence collection, tactical questioning, vehicle and personnel searches, instructions on how homemade explosive devices are made and how to recognize if a device is homemade.( You could maybe place this sentence after you introduce the new training course before this sentence). (Furthermore) It is rumored that women may begin Army Ranger training by mid-2015. This change will open up hundreds of thousands front-line positions for women, some positions possibly even leading to elite commando jobs for women. This will end the policy of “no women in units that are tasked with direct combat”. Jobs opportunities will not be available all at once, but with each branch examining the new lift on the ban, jobs will be available as they see fit. The goal in 2016 is for all assessments to be complete and have women fully integrated into all roles in the army. In light of recent job opportunities opening up to females, a new movement has been created. The women of the army now called it “Sisters in Arms”. This group was developed in hopes of helping the many female soldiers find their individual voice in the army. The program has spread throughout the Army worldwide. Nicolevnguyen (talk) 21:26, 15 November 2013 (UTC) Nicolevnguyen (talk) 22:57, 17 November 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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I've just re-removed the lengthy material on the views of Captain Katie Petronio. This seems to be giving her views WP:UNDUE emphasis, especially as she's writing only on the basis of her personal experiences. This source also doesn't support the statement attributed to it that "many women in the military have raised objections". The notion that Captain Petronio was "inadvertently was drawn into combat during two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan" also seems dubious - surely people expect to be sent into combat zones as members of the US Marines, and it's unlikely that she would have been surprised by this. Nick-D ( talk) 07:07, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Add something? We have the part about WW2 countries inclusion of women and it says "units in Britain and Germany, and front-line units in Russia." But then there are only 2 sections discussing those roles, the ones for Britain and Germany. Should we add another section underneath them for the Soviet Unions part aforementioned? JJ5788 ( talk) 01:43, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
The "Women in combat" section has been tagged as primarily presenting US examples and perspectives since November 2013. Despite this, even further US-specific examples have been added to this section and other parts of the article over the last few weeks (in considerable detail - including several paras on a single small-scale US research study!). Given that we have specific articles on women in the US military now, I think that this should be removed from this article, which should present an international perspective not favouring any one countries views or experiences unnecessarily. I had a go at removing this, but was reverted by Rjensen. I'd appreciate other editors' views, and Rjensen's perspective on why they think this material should be included here. Nick-D ( talk) 07:27, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
I find several sections of this article to be problematic in its US centrism, particularly as its not even clear its about the US only. See in particular the sections "2019" and "Academic studies" how about moving this to the Women in the military by country? Multiplexxxxx ( talk) 20:04, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
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What's up with one article being used as a citation like 6 times? Saintvlas22 ( talk) 20:32, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
The articles on the topic of the female combatants doesn't have women who received most awards for their service. One such a combatant is from WWI and her name is Milunka Savić.
She doesn't get mentioned not even once in the Wiki page despite receiving - Order of the Star of Karađorđe - Légion d’Honneur (twice) - Russian Cross of St. George - British medal of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael - Miloš Obilić medal - Croix de Guerre with gold palm
Possibly has most decorative military ordeals in the history of females in warfare! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.135.204.54 ( talk) 03:15, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
Arguments only talk about gender equality. But what would happen in war? A man would have a woman right in front of him and he has to kill her. What do men think of this? -- 2.245.155.13 ( talk) 06:57, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
That doesn't matter though? It's an encyclopaedic article, not an opinion piece. "What do men think of this?" does not belong into an article that is there to list and describe facts. 2003:75:2E2D:A325:D442:C53:B74A:B80B ( talk) 15:07, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
The initial four paragraphs of this article have been changed to include blatantly false information and nonsense. Examples include; Referencing all women who served in combat as transgendered, talk of "ancient warrior transgender", stating that the 2030's have occurred, and the non-logical statement "For two of years"
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For future reference vandalized sections re-posted below in italics.
For two of years in a substantial number of cultures and nations, transgenders have served in various roles in the military, from ancient warrior transgender to those currently serving in current armed conflicts.
While the majority of combatants in most cultures have been men, a number of transgender in history have fought alongside them. In the American Civil War, there were women who sometimes even fought cross-dressed as men. Fighting on the battlefront was not the only way women involved themselves in war. Some also served as nurses and aides.
Despite various roles in the armies of past societies, the role of transgenders in the military, particularly in combat, is controversial and it is only recently that transgender have begun to be given a more prominent role in contemporary armed forces. As increasing numbers of county begin to expand the role of transgender in their militaries, the debate continues.
More recently, from the beginning of the 2030s, most Western armies have begun to admit women to serve active duty in all of military branches.[1] In nine countries women are conscripted into military.[2][3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.15.8.2 ( talk) 00:17, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
After looking at the talk page on the article I discovered that many people found that the article need a bit of work, although there have been some modifications I think there is still room for some improvement. There are also things that could be described with a but more detail, and most importantly brought up to date. 19lunaa ( talk) 06:49, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
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o. k., she was a tough nazi german female test pilot. And got military decorations and rewards for her achievements (not really welcomed by quite a number of german military men, then !). - But, what at all, has she to do with this article ? -- 2001:A61:2B09:B901:F94C:A916:26E6:394F ( talk) 18:59, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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The selection of those studies for the article is highly biased by ideology, and also americocentric. There are studies about the physical performance and abilities of females in the military compared to males in the military which show clear differences: https://osha.europa.eu/en/themes/musculoskeletal-disorders - https://books.google.de/books?id=i42vPG_iXRgC&pg=PA9%E2%80%9327#v=onepage&q&f=false - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512412/Female-RAF-recruits-100-000-compensation--march-like-men.html - https://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-boland/female-marines-not-required-do-1-pull - http://web.archive.org/web/20160128224252/http://www.vtg.admin.ch/internet/vtg/de/tools/webarchiv/archiv_2007/fda_-_newsletter/newsletter_1_07/gleiche_fitness-beurteilung.html - et al. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.83.63.106 ( talk) 08:56, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
This article has a section for academic work regarding studies about women integration in military units ,but in its main part it references a different study in america that women disrupt military units. No discussion of whether the studies are biased or not, and by separating them in two different sections despite being conflicting, they present two different views on the topic. They both should be under the academic section, reflecting each other, or else removed entirely.
Secondly, the part about combat manuals talking about women participation and how women need to prevent rape is badly worded and doesn't seem to add anything ? I don't understand how any of this is written... 154.73.217.42 ( talk) 03:01, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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I feel like it would be best to take the history part of the combat section and put it into the general history section, so that way the reader can be presented with a more complete picture of the history of women in the military/combat more clearly ~ Gloryjones958 —Preceding undated comment added 23:49, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
I plan to add a few paragraphs about women in World War I and World War II. -- Kiyonomcdaniel ( talk) 23:12, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
This article has been fleshed out considerably, but I think it still needs work in thinking about weasel words. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_words Other than that, its pretty good. Asarelah 17:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
The articles on the history of women in the military, and of the current debate in thier role in combat units, have been merged into one single new article.
This article will comprise of two sections:
1: The history
2: The current debate
These changes come after discussion on the peer review page of the original women in combat article, which can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Peer_review/Women_in_combat#.5B.5BUser:oldwindybear.7Coldwindybear.5D.5D -- SGGH 19:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
I wonder if there are issues relating to the treatment of women veterans that can be explored in thier own section of this article? [1]-- SGGH 12:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Women Veterans specially women with PTSD are not being treated equally at the VA Hospitals in Washington DC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.138.70.245 ( talk) 18:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
--Guess what? "Unequal" as in not satisfactorily addressed stems from the VA doesn't have much experience with female aspects of PTSD. Truth is as a generic whole women are "slightly" different physiologically and mentally than men. As a trivial example rape issues are more prevalent for women. End result the VA program fo females can only be improved by gaining knowledge and insight on those aspects of treatment which are different for women than men. Time. Pioneers. Sorry help for first in line sucks. Also your ears are clogged if you think there are not lots of men unhappy with VA solutions. 72.182.8.160 ( talk) 16:24, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The statement that Australia was the second nation to permit women on combat submarines is just plain wrong. For example, the Swedish Navy has had women serving on subs since the 1980's. The fact that all countries' navies except for those of Australia, Norway, Canada and Spain ban women on submarines is also plain wrong. Apart from the aforementioned example of Sweden, the German Navy also permits women on submarines. There are probably more countries (I'm pretty sure the Danish navy permitted women onboard when they operated submarines, which they no longer do.), but those two are the ones I'm completely certain about from the top of my head. // 83.226.220.153 01:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
While i have sofar been unable to find a source for it i think Sweden got its first female submarine officer sometime during the 2nd half of the 1980s, but it may have been early 90s. Anyone who watched the Discovery channel program that reported from one of the first exercises with Gotland and USN knows Sweden certainly has no ban on women on subs. Also its ridiculous to use the USN excuse about "Social reasons include the need to segregate accommodation and facilities" as something generalised, because the cost for Swedish navy to add women on its submarines(and they´re supertiny compared to USN SSNs, and can still remain at sea on patrol for 6+ weeks) is exactly NIL, ZERO, nothing. And it works fine. Today, its uncommon that a subcrew does not have women in it. DW75 ( talk) 01:45, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
http://skargardsbryggan.com/index.lasso?f=3&s=0&n=20&a=517142369&o=&oo= (article in swedish) This article says that Paula Wallenburg served as a sonaroperator in 1995 and has now become the first female submarine commander 15 years later. While this proves that sweden have not had a female commander on a submarine until recently, it really doesn't tell us when the first woman served in any other capacity. Women where first allowed to serve alongside the conscripted males in 1989 and it wasn't until 1994 that they were allowed to do so without any plans to become an officer but that doesn't mean there were any availible positions on a sub during that time or even if there were any women applying before Paula. 212.27.23.71 ( talk) 21:49, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
I have added the paragraph from the submarine article as it seems to contain well-cited information on this topic. A couple of references were destroyed in the copying process but I'm on that now. SGGH speak! 18:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
recently removed 2 unsourced statements in this article: 1) that a US soldier was "abused" by her Iraqi captors, citation please 2) the dubious claim that female MP's are known as "lionesses"
also re-worded the final section about Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, as it was poorly organized and seemed to have been edited down from a longer section
Kaiser187 22:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Col. Kadaffi has what could be a "Amazon" detail serving as his bodyguards. 205.240.144.225 06:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
"Female Marines Train for Iraq Border Security" by Staff Sgt Raymie G. Cruz, 3dMAW
http://www.usmc.mil Cricket316 02:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Added information on Lioness Program to 'Tactical Concerns' section Feb 2011 Kerani ( talk) 17:24, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I think it would be a good idea to set about fixing the references to give titles to each URL rather than leaving the plain html code. SGGH speak! 18:07, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm in the process of editing this page to include a new section on heterosexulization (Women in the military). These are a few of the resources I've located that I am finding to be useful. If anyone else has suggestions or feedback, do let me know. I hope to have my new content posted in the coming weeks!
1. Drohan, E., (2013). CJTF Paladin offers training for female engagement team members. The Official Homepage of the United States Army. Five female U.S Army soldiers are the first to partake in a new training course. The course was designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. All five soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Brigrade, 1st Calvalry Division at Bagram Airfield. The training course lasted for three days and included training in unexploded ordnance awareness, biometrics, forensics, evidence collection, tactical questioning, vehicle and personnel searches, instructions on how homemade explosive devices are made and how to recognize if a device is homemade. Originally the female soldiers were just asked to participate in a basic visual recognition-training course, but later it was decided that the training would be more beneficial to the Female Engagement Team members. The reasoning behind this change was because the members of the Female Engagement Team would be interacting with Afghan women as part of their duties and would be the responding team to analyze any suspicious evidence.
2. Fishel, J. (2013). Military leaders lift ban on women in combat roles. Politics. The ban has finally been lifted on women serving in combat positions. This decision overturned the banned that was placed on women since 1994. Women in the military make up about 15 percent of the force. They have demonstrated their worth in the military and are finally being able to hold the same positions as their male counterparts. This change will open up hundreds of thousands front-line positions for women, some positions possibly even leading to elite commando jobs for women. In recent years, women have taken on roles such as medics, military police, but these roles were never formally assigned until now.
3. Ivarsson, S., Estrada, A.X., Berggren, A.W. (2005). Understanding Men's Attitudes Toward Women in the Swedish Armed Forces. Military Psychology. 12(4), 269-282. The purpose of this article was to examine the attitudes towards women in the military. The sample consisted of 1,320 male officers from the Swedish Armed Forces. It was expected that rank, years of military service, age, education, and sexist beliefs would correlated with the men’s attitudes towards the women in the military. The results showed that men’s attitudes towards women appeared to be positive. But it was a surprise that the results did not show a more positive result than has been discovered as the Swedish society is normally characterized as more egalitarian with respect to women. The positive studies correlated with the respondent’s age, education, rank, years in the service, sexism
4. Lawrence, C., Starr, B. (2013) Military to open comebat jobs to women. Security clearance: CNN. The U.S military is ending the policy of banning women from certain positions in the army. This will end the policy of “no women in units that are tasked with direct combat”. Jobs opportunities will not be available all at once, but with each branch examining the new lift on the ban, jobs will be available as they see fit. Examinations of physical standards and gender-neutral accommodations within combat units will be done every 90 days to report progress. The goal is 2016 for all assessments to be complete and have women fully integrated into all roles in the army. Senator McCain supports the lift on the ban yet he is quoted saying that the move should not change the military. He states that it is critical that the U.S army maintains the same high standards to continue to be the most admired and feared force in the world. Though this lift on the ban will officially allow women to take on these combat role, it will not be the first since women have seen combat. Women have been taking on these roles for quite sometime, it just was never officially recognized.
5. Matthews, M.D., Edner, Morten, G., Laurence, J.H., Rohall, D.E. (2009). Role of group affiliation and gender attitudes toward women in the military. Military Psychology. 21(2), 241-251. doi: 10.1080/08995600902768750 This study serves to examine the attitudes of West Point cadets, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets, and non-military-affiliated students from civilian colleges toward a variety of roles that women may serve in the military. Participants were asked whether they believed a women ‘should’ or ‘should not’ serve various military jobs, such as, jet fighter pilot, truck mechanic, nurse in a combat zone, typist in the Pentagon, commander of a military installation, hand- to-hand combat soldier, jet transport pilot, air defense gunner, and crew member on a combat ship. The results showed that military cadets were less approving of women being assigned to certain military jobs than non-military students. It was also shown that women were more approving than the male counterparts.
6. Sasson, Levy, O. (2011) Research on Gender and the Military in Israel: From a Gendered Organization to Inequality Regimes. Israel Studies Review. 26 (2), 73-98. doi:10.3167/isr.2011.260205 The purpose of this article was to review the research on gender and the military in Israel since the 1970s. It was argued that the research had moved from a binary gendered concept to intersectionality analysis, as well as an emphasis on women as agents of change and resistant. It concluded that even when a change in gender relation occurs, the military world is will only affect a small minority of women soldiers.
7. Young, L.M., Nauta, M.M. (2013) Sexism as a Predictor of Attitudes Toward Women in the Military and in Combat. Military Psychology (American Psychological Association). 25 (2), 166-171. doi:10.1037/h0094958 This article examined four forms of sexist beliefs as predictors of attitudes towards women in the military as well as combat. It was hypothesized that the differences in attitudes toward women in the military and in combat held by military-affiliated and civilian students would be attributable to differences in levels of sexism. 316 students were surveyed via an online survey. The students ranged from the ages of 18-23+. It was revealed that military affiliated college students were more negative towards women in combat than civilian students. But the groups did not differ on attitudes towards women in the military.
8. (2013). Women in the military. Norfolk Daily News This article outlines the important dates in which females were incorporated into the U.S military services. It was not until 1948 that a law was finally passed that permanently made women a permanent part of the military services. In 1976, the first group of women is admitted into a U.S military academy. In 1994 a policy prohibits women from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. Almost twenty years later, in 2013, an order was passed that allowed women the same opportunities as men in the combat zone. It is rumored that women may begin Army Ranger training by mid-2015.
9. (2013). Sisters in Arms: Breaking down barriers and rising to the challenge. The Official Homepage of the United States Army. According to statistics only 15.6 percent of its 1.1 million soldiers are female. Women serve in 95 percent of all army occupations which makes up 15.6 percent of active army. Women only recently were able to take on combat roles in the army. In light of recent job opportunities opening up to females, a new movement has been created. The women of the army call it “Sisters in Arms”. This group was developed in hopes of helping the many female soldiers find their individual voice in the army. The program has spread throughout the Army worldwide.
10. (2013). Reasons why women should not join the military. Business and employment. This articles stands to provide the many reasons why women should not be able to join the military. Physical fitness was among the top reasons why a woman would not be adequate enough to join the military. Health and physiology is another reason that was given. Women are obviously different from men, and this includes the way a women’s body is built and functions. A woman would require more hygienic conditions than their male counterparts. Hormones are another factor that could possibly influence a way a woman does her job. Lastly, sex and sexual harassment is another factor that stands in the way. If you put two sexes in the same area, it ups the possibility of sexual harassment occurring. Sexual relations also impact morale and relations between soldiers. Nicolevnguyen ( talk) 23:10, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
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OK, seriously, I'm in Iraq right now and I've never heard of anyone call a female MP/SF, detainee handler, medic, driver, translater, or ordinary straight-up shooter a "lioness." This sounds like a word coined by a reporter that was never in common usage. Recommend more specific language. Instead of talking about "lionesses" for examples of female combatants, discuss the policy the Air Force has for females in their Security Forces. Or talk about how there are female MPs in every branch. Or site specific examples of females being attached to combat units (not limited to medics).
John Holden ( talk) 16:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
This article seems to ignore the traditional view as women as noncombatants. That is how can we discuss the role of women in combat, if we ignore their role as "innocents" How is the role of women different from men? Men were traditionally the warriors. Societies either had an all male army, or a male and female army. I am not aware of any with an all female army, except the Amazons, a mythical all female race. Women as warriors is unusual, may not unheard of, but not the norm. That needs to be explained in the article. Rds865 ( talk) 00:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
This article also ignores the argument that some honor codes forbid fighting women. Also, men are often considered duty bound to protect women and children. Examples of such as is letting them evacuate first and the phrase innocent women and children, always excludes men. Rds865 ( talk) 00:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
There is no honor in modern day war. The laws set up by the Geneva convention are just that. Laws. Not precepts and codes of honor. Richco07 ( talk) 00:08, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Wow, what a collection of armchair theorists.
The history of societies with such honor codes---and they still exist---shows that they don't react to "violations" like female soldiers by just refusing to fight them. Instead, they consider female soldiers to be an abomination and respond with outrage. No prisoners taken, wounded killed, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.180.83 ( talk) 07:15, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I think this section needs to either be cleaned up or reduced to just a link to the other page. There aren't many examples, and most of them aren't of military or even paramilitary women. Ripley was, I believe, a civilian (maybe merchant marine equivalent), and I believe Michelle Yeoh's characters in Supercop and Tomorrow Never Dies were in the People's Liberation Army. The others, while clearly "action heroes" of one sort or another, have little or no link to formal military organizations. It might be interesting to list more female characters who fit the category, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suzanne de nimes ( talk • contribs) 15:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
FYI, a list of sources on this subject can be found here: [2]. Cla68 ( talk) 04:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Women have been an integral part of the military since early ages. Women have played all sorts of roles including direct combat. Women have been restricted from having an active role in the military on accounts of "weak physique"; in spite of these restrictions, women have continually shown that they can be able soldiers and fight just as well as any other male soldier. Going back in history some of the notable names that come to mind are Joan of Arc who led the battle against the English to end the siege of the City of Orleans or Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi in India who defended her city against the British East India Company at the age of 20. Some other notable names are Catherine Ségurane, Rani Durgawati, Lizzie Compton and many others. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruchiksynjitp ( talk • contribs) 13:13, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I've just re-removed this section from the article. A 33 year old study about the attitudes of soldiers at the time hardly seems likely to still be "perhaps the most effective research in interaction among enlisted men and women" given the social changes and changes to national militaries since then. If this material has any value, its as a snapshot of attitudes at the time. I've posted the material below for discussion. Nick-D ( talk) 09:55, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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I removed the definition you dislike. You are able to provide more recent issues of the problem. -- George Serdechny 10:04, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I've also removed the following section. The citation given for the claim that menstrual periods could cause ineffectiveness for women in ground units is actually about female aircraft ferry pilots in World War II being restricted from flight duties during their periods due to attitudes at the time, and it argues that no accidents were ever actually attributed to the pilot menstruating (it's online here). Nick-D ( talk) 10:05, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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Now there are only direct quotations in the article. -- George Serdechny 10:09, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
It seems this article has been trolled, as every use of the word combat has been changed to "Kombat" and links to an article on a town in Namibia. Might want to rinse the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.152.218.201 ( talk) 13:14, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
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Forty percent of this article is about women in combat. Is that enough to break that section out into a separate article? We could use WP:Summary Style and leave behind a condensed version of the section. That would make it easier for contributors who want to write about non-combat issues and history, like nurses and the WAVES and Women's Army Corps of WWII. Besides, the debate over women is almost exclusively about the US military. -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 22:53, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Can we get an RS for "permit women to fill active combat roles, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Israel, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland"? -- Robapalooza ( talk) 16:43, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
permeate the early part of this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.193.120 ( talk) 23:13, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
"I just added a section to this article on women's role in combat. The content synthesized a number of research articles and current material on this topic. Please do let me know if you have suggestions or can point to additional material to support this contribution.
Women have been involved in the military since 1775. But their roles were more involved in the fields of nursing, laundering and mending clothing, and cooking for the troops. In 1917 when Loretta Walsh became the first women to enlist. But it was not until 1948 that a law was finally passed that permanently made women a permanent part of the military services. In 1976, the first group of women is admitted into a U.S military academy. According to statistics only 15.6 percent of its 1.1 million soldiers are female. Women serve in 95 percent of all army occupations, which makes up 15.6 percent of active army. In a one-year span, Some 40,000 American military women are deployed during the Gulf War operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. But not a single woman was able to take on any form of combat. In 1994 a policy prohibits women from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. A study conducted by (Matthews et al. 2009) to examine the attitudes of West Point cadets, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets, and non-military-affiliated students from civilian colleges toward a variety of roles that women may serve in the military. The results showed that military cadets were less approving of women being assigned to certain military jobs than non-military students.
New opportunities are starting to open up for female soldiers. Almost twenty years later, in 2013, an order was passed that allowed women the same opportunities as men in the combat zone. Female U.S Army soldiers are being asked to partake in a new training course. The training course was designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. The training will help female soldiers in training such as training in unexploded ordnance awareness, biometrics, forensics, evidence collection, tactical questioning, vehicle and personnel searches, instructions on how homemade explosive devices are made and how to recognize if a device is homemade. It is rumored that women may begin Army Ranger training by mid-2015. This change will open up hundreds of thousands front-line positions for women, some positions possibly even leading to elite commando jobs for women. This will end the policy of “no women in units that are tasked with direct combat”. Jobs opportunities will not be available all at once, but with each branch examining the new lift on the ban, jobs will be available as they see fit. The goal is 2016 for all assessments to be complete and have women fully integrated into all roles in the army. In light of recent job opportunities opening up to females, a new movement has been created. The women of the army call it “Sisters in Arms”. This group was developed in hopes of helping the many female soldiers find their individual voice in the army. The program has spread throughout the Army worldwide. Nicolevnguyen ( talk) 21:26, 15 November 2013 (UTC) Nicolevnguyen ( talk) 22:57, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
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I thought that your section was interesting to read! There were some mistakes I saw as I was reading... My suggestions is that some of the sentences seems a bit choppy and that you should explain more. You should explain alittle more about the order that was passed? I bold the sentence that needs to be change alittle bit since you use the word training 3 times in one sentences. Also, Explain more about the Army Ranger? because I would like to know more about that. Overall, it was nice reading about what is happening in today's world with the Army. :)
In today's world, new opportunities are starting to open up for female soldiers. Almost twenty years later (from what?) in 2013, an order was passed that allowed women the same opportunities as men in the combat zone. Female U.S Army soldiers are being asked to partake in a new training course (what kind of training course?). The training course was designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. The training will help female soldiers in training such as training in unexploded ordnance awareness, biometrics, forensics, evidence collection, tactical questioning, vehicle and personnel searches, instructions on how homemade explosive devices are made and how to recognize if a device is homemade.( You could maybe place this sentence after you introduce the new training course before this sentence). (Furthermore) It is rumored that women may begin Army Ranger training by mid-2015. This change will open up hundreds of thousands front-line positions for women, some positions possibly even leading to elite commando jobs for women. This will end the policy of “no women in units that are tasked with direct combat”. Jobs opportunities will not be available all at once, but with each branch examining the new lift on the ban, jobs will be available as they see fit. The goal in 2016 is for all assessments to be complete and have women fully integrated into all roles in the army. In light of recent job opportunities opening up to females, a new movement has been created. The women of the army now called it “Sisters in Arms”. This group was developed in hopes of helping the many female soldiers find their individual voice in the army. The program has spread throughout the Army worldwide. Nicolevnguyen (talk) 21:26, 15 November 2013 (UTC) Nicolevnguyen (talk) 22:57, 17 November 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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I've just re-removed the lengthy material on the views of Captain Katie Petronio. This seems to be giving her views WP:UNDUE emphasis, especially as she's writing only on the basis of her personal experiences. This source also doesn't support the statement attributed to it that "many women in the military have raised objections". The notion that Captain Petronio was "inadvertently was drawn into combat during two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan" also seems dubious - surely people expect to be sent into combat zones as members of the US Marines, and it's unlikely that she would have been surprised by this. Nick-D ( talk) 07:07, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Add something? We have the part about WW2 countries inclusion of women and it says "units in Britain and Germany, and front-line units in Russia." But then there are only 2 sections discussing those roles, the ones for Britain and Germany. Should we add another section underneath them for the Soviet Unions part aforementioned? JJ5788 ( talk) 01:43, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
The "Women in combat" section has been tagged as primarily presenting US examples and perspectives since November 2013. Despite this, even further US-specific examples have been added to this section and other parts of the article over the last few weeks (in considerable detail - including several paras on a single small-scale US research study!). Given that we have specific articles on women in the US military now, I think that this should be removed from this article, which should present an international perspective not favouring any one countries views or experiences unnecessarily. I had a go at removing this, but was reverted by Rjensen. I'd appreciate other editors' views, and Rjensen's perspective on why they think this material should be included here. Nick-D ( talk) 07:27, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
I find several sections of this article to be problematic in its US centrism, particularly as its not even clear its about the US only. See in particular the sections "2019" and "Academic studies" how about moving this to the Women in the military by country? Multiplexxxxx ( talk) 20:04, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
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What's up with one article being used as a citation like 6 times? Saintvlas22 ( talk) 20:32, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
The articles on the topic of the female combatants doesn't have women who received most awards for their service. One such a combatant is from WWI and her name is Milunka Savić.
She doesn't get mentioned not even once in the Wiki page despite receiving - Order of the Star of Karađorđe - Légion d’Honneur (twice) - Russian Cross of St. George - British medal of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael - Miloš Obilić medal - Croix de Guerre with gold palm
Possibly has most decorative military ordeals in the history of females in warfare! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.135.204.54 ( talk) 03:15, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
Arguments only talk about gender equality. But what would happen in war? A man would have a woman right in front of him and he has to kill her. What do men think of this? -- 2.245.155.13 ( talk) 06:57, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
That doesn't matter though? It's an encyclopaedic article, not an opinion piece. "What do men think of this?" does not belong into an article that is there to list and describe facts. 2003:75:2E2D:A325:D442:C53:B74A:B80B ( talk) 15:07, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
The initial four paragraphs of this article have been changed to include blatantly false information and nonsense. Examples include; Referencing all women who served in combat as transgendered, talk of "ancient warrior transgender", stating that the 2030's have occurred, and the non-logical statement "For two of years"
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For two of years in a substantial number of cultures and nations, transgenders have served in various roles in the military, from ancient warrior transgender to those currently serving in current armed conflicts.
While the majority of combatants in most cultures have been men, a number of transgender in history have fought alongside them. In the American Civil War, there were women who sometimes even fought cross-dressed as men. Fighting on the battlefront was not the only way women involved themselves in war. Some also served as nurses and aides.
Despite various roles in the armies of past societies, the role of transgenders in the military, particularly in combat, is controversial and it is only recently that transgender have begun to be given a more prominent role in contemporary armed forces. As increasing numbers of county begin to expand the role of transgender in their militaries, the debate continues.
More recently, from the beginning of the 2030s, most Western armies have begun to admit women to serve active duty in all of military branches.[1] In nine countries women are conscripted into military.[2][3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.15.8.2 ( talk) 00:17, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
After looking at the talk page on the article I discovered that many people found that the article need a bit of work, although there have been some modifications I think there is still room for some improvement. There are also things that could be described with a but more detail, and most importantly brought up to date. 19lunaa ( talk) 06:49, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
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o. k., she was a tough nazi german female test pilot. And got military decorations and rewards for her achievements (not really welcomed by quite a number of german military men, then !). - But, what at all, has she to do with this article ? -- 2001:A61:2B09:B901:F94C:A916:26E6:394F ( talk) 18:59, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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The selection of those studies for the article is highly biased by ideology, and also americocentric. There are studies about the physical performance and abilities of females in the military compared to males in the military which show clear differences: https://osha.europa.eu/en/themes/musculoskeletal-disorders - https://books.google.de/books?id=i42vPG_iXRgC&pg=PA9%E2%80%9327#v=onepage&q&f=false - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512412/Female-RAF-recruits-100-000-compensation--march-like-men.html - https://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-boland/female-marines-not-required-do-1-pull - http://web.archive.org/web/20160128224252/http://www.vtg.admin.ch/internet/vtg/de/tools/webarchiv/archiv_2007/fda_-_newsletter/newsletter_1_07/gleiche_fitness-beurteilung.html - et al. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.83.63.106 ( talk) 08:56, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
This article has a section for academic work regarding studies about women integration in military units ,but in its main part it references a different study in america that women disrupt military units. No discussion of whether the studies are biased or not, and by separating them in two different sections despite being conflicting, they present two different views on the topic. They both should be under the academic section, reflecting each other, or else removed entirely.
Secondly, the part about combat manuals talking about women participation and how women need to prevent rape is badly worded and doesn't seem to add anything ? I don't understand how any of this is written... 154.73.217.42 ( talk) 03:01, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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