In the Reagan Navy, my brother, on a destroyer tender in the Pacific, saw his ship/shore rotation go from 3 years/3 years to 5 years/1 year when the Navy opened his specialty to women. Navy machinist women at sea often hated the watches and the work and got very pregnant very early into their first cruise in order to get the mandated shore duty for expectant mothers. In the military, years ago, and in the factory where I work now, the pregnant/childcare solution is, almost always, special treatment for the pregnant/childcarer, and the rest of you will hafta take up the slack.
Last time I mentioned the special treatment women got from the military, I was attacked by a military woman who accused me of wanting women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen before swearing up and down that women get no special treatment in the military.
It amazes me how blind people can be to what’s going on around them.