There's Only So Much A Woman Can Bear, Apparently.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5775737/First-woman-join-infantry-regiment-quits-two-weeks.html

[kvalidir]

True Sqad, I think that's a matter of how you are brought up though rather even that what you are asked to do.
I never do anything I'm not reasonably sure I could succeed at, I do think some people don't think things through, don't appreciate whether they are made of the right stuff, and I think for people brought up a certain way they would find it easier than others. I doubt I'd drop out if I started it ( but I would have no desire to start it- not an army type), I doubt most of my brothers or my one sister would, but there are people in my family I KNOW would because they have that disposition, it's all about knowing yourself. Also this omen was socially isolated which was not considered, that will have been a massive factor, the whole thing was ill thought out.

[andy-hughes]

Women joining the infantry is news.

A woman failing to join the infantry is news.

But as advised, this is only one individual woman, it does not infer that no woman will be suitable and capable.

When a woman does succeed, that will be news again, and then the novelty will wear off.