Female Soldiers on the Front Line Currently, women in the military are not allowed to serve on the front lines of battle and I agree with this decision. On television you see the commercials with the slogan “Anything you can do I can do better.” Maybe some women can be better soldiers than some men, but that doesn't mean that women should be allowed to be on the front lines during battle. Putting a woman on the front lines of battle with men will compromise the mission. Men are human and will go out of their way to protect a woman, even if it costs him his life. And, until our country is ready to treat a captured, raped, tortured and mutilated female soldier just like a man, women should not be placed on the front lines of battle.
Sadly, it seems that the women in Pakistan honestly believe that they are below the men in their country because they continue to allow this behavior to continue, without revolutionizing like the women in many other countries, including the US, once did. On the other hand, women in the United States are taught to love and respect themselves. Opposing Pakistan costumes, a woman that has a positive outlook on herself is found to be more appealing and attractive to the male population than a woman who is constantly putting herself down. Because the women in America today are taught by their parents and other members of society that they are valuable members of humanity from the day they are brought into the world, the vast majority of them would never let the male population control the direction of their
Elaine also mentioned that army’s own surveys, 90 percent of enlisted women have said they oppose involuntary combat assignments on the same basis men. Elaine approaches that even if physical capabilities were objectively measured and equal, co-ed combat assignments would affect discipline and unit cohesion. I feel in combat that they need to train the women and men the same if they are going to be on the same team and that’s when equality should come in and train them as one. In my mother’s opinion she agrees with Elaine that women shouldn’t be in combat because of medical issues and that will slow the team down and that dogs can smell women when they are on their minstrel
In the law, married women were legally dead in its eyes.There were state property laws that prevented married women from having any right. Such as anything they owed were their husbands now, anything to do with earning or receiving money, that money went to their husband (Bonnie and Ruthsdotter). Besides from having no right in society, women also had many limitations on education and the workforce. Women were not allowed to enter many professions including medicine and law. Girls were not given a formal education, and if they wanted to enter a higher education, such as college they would be rejected.
Unfortunately, the sad reality is that the women in Pakistan honestly believe that they are below the men in their country because they continue to allow this behavior to transpire. When it is constantly shoved in someone’s face that they are nothing, then they will accept and assume the responsibility (or some may actually say: the lack of responsibility) of being non-existent. On the other hand, women in the United States
WOMEN IN THE MILITARY: WORLD WAR II Bonny Lou Boltz History 102: U.S. History After 1877 Professor Tara Simpson September 15, 2012 Before World War II, the role of wife and mother was the prevailing view of women and many occupations were reserved for men. Military minds stonewalled women organizations and anyone who suggested that women should be in the military. The opinion throughout history was that women and war didn’t mix because women were valued as child-bearers and society did not believe women were strong enough to carry heavy weapons in battle or smart enough to understand tactical war strategies. It wasn’t until the last two years of World War I that women were allowed to join the military and not until the 1940’s that they were allowed to become permanent members of the armed forces. 1 Deborah Sampson served for over a year in General Washington’s army in 1782 disguised as a man but is later discharged when her gender was discovered after being wounded.
In this particular case the female is being discriminated against. Sharron Frontiero is a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. When she filed for a dependent allowance for her husband, the dependent allowance was denied. The reason was, because according to Federal Law wives of military members are provided with the allowance that she applied for automatically, yet husbands of military members are not given the same allowance unless there wives income provides for more than a half the married couples income. According to Frontiero, not allowing her husband or any other husband to have dependency and by not allowing this they were discriminating against female military members which violated the Fifth Amendment’s process clause.
Many individuals feel that tattoos are for second class citizens or criminals when in fact for some it is simply a hobby or dedication to a lost family member, child, or a way to label themselves with something meaningful for them. Feminist are often seen as women who hate men, when in fact they can actually be the core reason for the act of choice in other women, and the reason women are allowed to vote in today’s society without having to do anything with whether they like or dislike men at all, and also senior citizens are also believed to be co-dependent and fragile when in fact there are many elder individuals who are healthier than some young adults. These stereotypes are often used negatively towards these groups of people and often effect how one addresses the needs, thoughts, or actions of these individual groups. Stereotypes often bring in prejudice that doesn’t exist into a topic when discussing a group of individuals. These biases can affect how
“Why did women win the vote?” Woman’s roles and statues were affected by Victorians view of women. They thought that women weren’t capable to do much and were constricted to very little. They had very little choice of what they wanted to do like choosing who they wanted to marry, what they wanted to do with the things (like money) they inherited and they couldn’t do much either like getting a full education, get equal pay, own property and couldn’t sue her husband as he owned her. Women’s roles were affected by Victorian views of women as their role was to look after the children, the family, and the home. Women were viewed as men’s property so they had to do whatever the husband wanted them to do.
There are many good arguments on both sides. They feel that there are plenty of suitable roles in the military for women. This issue is very divisive and most people have strong and well set opinions that fall clearly on one side of the debate or the other. Women shouldn’t serve in combat positions because of physical, physiological, political reasons, and the men in the infantry are just too immature to handle it. What about the women who are physically fit for the infantry?