“worried that the presence of women in their small teams could create complications in their home life, sexual harassment or affairs.”

My son is in the army and I could have told you that the decision to allow women to just be soldiers wouldn’t go over with male soldiers at all. I want to smack him every time he refers to the women in his group as “females” because I can just hear in his voice how that word (and how he and the rest of his “buddies”…

There never seems to be an acknowledgement that women might bring unique strengths to a team, like being able to more easily interact with women in societies where women do not speak to strange men.