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Yes, it would be much better to have equality. Women would get drafted and fight in WW2 alongside men.
by jkot 11y ago
Yes, it would be much better to have equality. Women would get drafted and fight in WW2 alongside men.
- geofft 11y agoIt's a little funny to think about equality, or really justice, in the context of war. Among other things, at least in the modern US, quite a number of US soldiers are men of lower classes and limited options who are looking at the armed forces as a job with good pay and a good basis for a future career, and the armed forces know that and advertise on that basis. If a draft starts, college students and certain professionals can get deferred; working men age 18-25 get drafted. It is the very nature of income and earning-power inequality in the US that is powering our current enlistment and would be powering any draft. It's not really sensible, I think, to argue about whether this equality is needed when the very reason the situation exists is itself a fairly major inequality. That said, women's groups have historically supported extending the draft to women. In the 1981 Supreme Court case Rostker v. Goldberg, which was filed by a group of men who opposed the gender discrimination in the draft, both the National Organization for Women and the ACLU's Women's Rights Project filed amici supporting them: http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/22/us/women-join-battle-on-all-male-draft.html http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/22/us/women-join-battle-on-al... https://www.aclu.org/tribute-legacy-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-wrp-staff https://www.aclu.org/tribute-legacy-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-...
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoIt's not as if women didn't fight in WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches