Women have been flying all RAAF aircraft for years. This latest thought bubble is about Land Warfare, with the phrase "frontline service" being bandied around. It sounds like "frontline service" is something about living in a first world war trench and relying on 200 meter marksmanship to win the day...?
So lets get 50 women into 4RAR ?
999 out of 1000 women just will NOT be able to carry the 40Kg+ for the big Km's at +40 C / -10C etc, consistently day in day out, all day and half the night, then go and do an attack that may go for a few days. Some could try, but succeed only as weak links, which is a zero. And the weaker dudes (15%) will cluster around them.
The WW2 era Soviets tried it because the needed a max effort, but ceased employing women after they won. The IDF tried it also, but only in the 1948 war, and ceased afterwards because of the effect of WIA/KIA females on male soldiers. The present era IDF has some mixed gender border guard units but no mixed main force Infantry units, so the idea of using the IDF as an example for the ADF to follow is invalid.
Realistically, as soon as women want to and then actually do, on equal terms with males, play and succeed at first grade rugby league or in internationally recognised title middleweight kickboxing, then the ADF may actually get some women who both want to and do become effective in Infantry / Armour / Artillery. Until then - yeah, you might get a couple of big fit girls starting Infantry IET but my guess is that they'll be crawling along with their chins in the dirt 1000m behind the blokes by about week 4....
I just don't see what we gain as a society by sending women off to get hosed at by equal opportunity 7.62 but with less survival probability than male soldiers.