Hi Gravel,
I appreciate your point, and those reports are excellent. The female medics discussed are not weak links in any sense.
However, female platoon medics being highly effective in that role, doing 8-10 hours on foot over maybe 10,000 meters with a Med pack plus webbing and weapon, does not prove that they can do it as #1 or 2 on a section's GPMG, or carrying a mortar baseplate or the other gear carried by the fighting elements of an Infantry section. Or, have the speed and strength requirements in a hand 2 hand bloodbath ( or do we exclude female Infantry from clearing ops in populated built up areas in no/lo light conditions, etc).
If women do get as far as deployments within Infantry units, fine. They'll either do the job or get casevaced as exhaustion cases. My guess is that the actual numbers you could count on one hand.
Somehow I can't see us being a world leader on this one.
The RAN has had mixed submarine crews for a while.