Navy Preps Subs for First Female Officers

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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

Women make great pilots in the fly-by-wire era, even combat pilots, though I'm not sure the U.S. has had a female pilot enter a dogfight as yet. This doesn't preclude motherhood. The two are not neccesarily mutually exclusive.

And being a woman does not = being a mother; you can't equate the two. Not every woman chooses to have children. Not every woman *can* have children, for that matter.

Of course the fact that "fatherhood" is also a job (and one would assume a very important one) never seems to lead to the assumption that men are unfit for certain professions simply because there is a possibility that they may one day be fathers.