“In war, fathers bury their sons”, but what about their daughters?

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'The ‘National Board of the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights’ put forward three arguments against female conscription in 2013. Firstly, that incorporating women into the draft is a “misconceived equality”. Economic and social gender gaps are still wide, and this conscription would, in their view, worsen it. Secondly, that militarising women does not legitimise the practice of conscription. Conscription has its own problems that need to be resolved without bringing in a new group to be subject to it. The military would still be male dominated regardless of if more women were involved, this needs to be solved before women can be brought into it by force. Thirdly, they argue in favour of non-violence. They believe that disarmament for both men and women is a more crucial goal than increasing those militarised by including women.

Conversely, the ‘National Coalition for Men’ in the US argued in favour of conscription. Firstly, they argued that to not would perpetuate double standards towards men. An article on their website stated that the “People who say, “men make war” are the same ones who find it sexist to say men make science”. And secondly, that if women are part of the population supporting wars, they should fight in it as well. In citing the Gulf War, they stated that although 86% of men supported a military attack on Kuwait, but so did 76% of women.