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# Women may soon qualify for the draft. Here’s what you need to know.
- URL: https://werd.io/women-may-soon-qualify-for-the-draft-heres-what-you/
- Published: 2021-12-06T18:16:17.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-06T18:16:17.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"“This overall lack of strong support, though, illustrates what we call benevolent sexism, which is a sexism that rests on paternalistic beliefs: ‘Women need protection, and their skills are nurturers, not fighters. We need to protect them from war so as to not corrupt their virtue and purity and inhibit them from fulfilling their duties as wives and mothers,’” Chod said. “This was the same argument made in the 19th and early-20th centuries to bar women from voting.”"

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