Should Women Take Place In The Front Lines

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Throughout centuries women have been limited “when it comes” to fighting alongside men in the battlefield. O December 3, 2015 Ash Carter announced that from the beginning of 2016 all military occupations and positions relating to combat will be open to women without exceptions relating to physical requirements. Despite this, there’s still skepticism on whether women should take place in the front lines. Reason for this doubt are the arguments that women are less physically capable, more prone to injuries and , to distractions by men, and the outcome of disastrous effects to the military. Though, coming to the conclusion, those are not the predominant reasons why women were restricted from the combat area. The real reason why i decided

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