The next thing of course - why are there not enough female Sgts ? Ask the blokes who get passed over to achieve that aim - who thinks that won't happen ?
As it happens I was serving when the WRAC were armed in 1982 - most that I knew did not like it (I think that it was optional for those already serving).
They even gave them "That Gun" !
My wife who was a part-time trained killer before then was armed from the mid-Seventies (the STABs were a different Army).
For those who might consider the bayonet being only ceremonial -
Badass - Brian Wood
After all - those Harrier aircraft were wrecked by an insurgent attack on an airfield.