Who Are Women?

Who are women? They’re the ones who make the babies, and raise the families, right? Don’t they deserve to be treated just as equal as men? Recently I have read an  article called “Sisters in Arms” by James Dao about the disadvantages to women during the different wars in the U.S over the years, and how they have just came into equality, meaning that they began to give the women equal rights.

In the article, Dao talks about how many women put themselves and their families in jeopardy by joining the U.S army. Speaking about a woman named Sergeant Pearsall, Dao said “in the midst of the chaos, she had noticed a fallen soldier. She crawled to the man who was 6-foot-2 and more than 200 pounds. Though he was twice her weight, she managed to drag him into the armored safety of the carrier.” Basically, Sergeant Pearsall put her life on the line to save a fallen soldier. Not only did she put her life on the line, but if she’d had a family at home, and she had been injured or killed trying to rescue someone else. At home, she would’ve had her family worried sick. Someone would’ve lost a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a friend, all because of her heroic act.

Also in the article, Dao talks about how, Greg Jacob, who is a former U.S Marine Corps officer supports the change of women now being accepted into the U.S army. Jacob says, “When the military goes to full integration, it allows commanders to put the best person in the job, not just the best man… if the best shot in the platoon is a woman, I can make her a sniper. But until now, I couldn’t do that.” Greg Jacob makes it seem as though the acceptance of women in the U.S army is a good thing, because some things that men can do, women can do better. Also, already having multicultural men in the U.S army, and adding multicultural women shows the diversity in the United States.

I agree with Jacob. I think that some jobs should be more open to women. Some opportunities are more closed to women, and it isn’t very fair. I think that as far as the U.S army, women should be able to be put in any place that they would like to be in. It’s only fair that a woman should have equal opportunities because at the end of the day they’re all fighting in the war for the same reason. So why not just give any position to who deserves it?