In the nearly three years since the Pentagon allowed women to join front-line combat units, questions about the policy have not gone away. And several countries have allowed women into combat units for years, including Canada, Israel, Norway and Sweden. Recently I visited Sweden to talk with conscripts in mechanized infantry, artillery and army ranger units. I learned that the performance of women in those units was not at issue. What was, at times, was the ability of their male peers to accept them.

Source: New York Times November 23, 2018 00:00 UTC