Women in the United States passed another milestone in their long and arduous journey toward gender equality yesterday when the Pentagon announced that women in the military will be allowed to serve in front-line combat units.
There is only one reason that women have historically been banned from soldiering. It has its roots back in the misty eons of time when primitive humans became consciously aware of what their instincts already told them -- that survival of the species depended upon reproduction. Since the male's only role in the process was to impregnate the female, a single male could serve an entire community. A tribe could not sacrifice its women, so when war came, it was the men who were sent to fight and die because they were expendable.
I think lots of them still are, but that's a topic for a different day.
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