Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.
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This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.
The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.
There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.
Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.