Equality Of Women In Military

As of last year, all combat roles opened to women, including special forces. Captain Kristen Griest and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver made history by becoming the first females to graduate from Army Ranger school (Tan). The opportunity is available for women to serve their country in combat and elite forces. Since all combat roles are open, women cannot be denied of any career they may want to pursue in the military. Due to this new opportunity for women, there is another issue that relates to the equality of women in the military. The next issue to address in America is women and the selective services. The selective service is the requirement that all male citizens of the U.S, between ages 18 through 26, must register for in case of a possible …show more content…
By allowing women to register for the draft, the nation will strengthen and benefit from both female and male soldier. A powerful idea from an article states, “Congress should reform the draft to include women to strengthen the future conscripted force and ensure that should a global conflict occur, Americans are ready to serve” (Schafer). Including women in the selective service will guarantee that are more than enough people who are ready to serve their country if the nation undergoes wartime. Registering women is a safe and strategic move that will strengthen the nation. Overall, allowing women will strengthen the nation because women will be at a higher and equal status as men. There would be no need to downgrade women in society if they can register for the draft. If this changed pulls through, women and men will be able to be drafted together. Requiring both genders to register reinforces a powerful and needed message of national commitment (Barno). The nation will strengthen because both genders are equal and take part in the same responsibilities. The size in a draft would increase if women registered, thus allowing stronger military in times of …show more content…
There are people that wish women would not advance in society and not be equal to men. People challenge the argument because they believe women are not strong enough and they do not want to allow the “weaker gender” in war, all of which is false. There is this distorted fact that women are not physically or mentally strong as men. When men are drafted for the war, they go through bootcamp and an immense of amount of training before seeing combat. When a male soldier does not meet physical or mental standard, they are assigned another job to aid in war. If women are drafted, they will not be in the frontlines, unless, they qualify and pass training. In times of emergencies, the nation will have access to the best, talented soldiers (Kong). It is not fair or right to allow the best male soldiers to participate in a time of war and completely exclude females from it. There are times where some of the best soldiers are found through the selective service. Without requiring women to register, it is stopping the nation from reaching its full potential to fight wars strategically and defend the country. Also, to include, people fear that women will one day have full equality to their male counterparts. There are people who fear change and the unknown. Overall, requiring women to register is symbolically powerful in that it