Well, a lot of them sure get pregnant on long deployments with carrier battle groups.
Where are they going to put the daycare on a sub?
Carriers have a lot of seamen.
Screw that!
I agree with you entirely. But, try to find a report that quantifies what percentage (or even number) of women actually get pregnant while at sea - It's nowhere to be found. They do publish the statistics for women that are pregnant while at sea, and that number is around 11% (last figures I saw were from 2007). I'm assuming that some of them became pregnant before deploying, and didn't find out they were pregnant until after they were at sea.
Whatever the case, a 11% "casualty" rate (and that's what it is with respect to mission readiness and capability), is a BIG problem for ship's captains as well as Navy HQ. I can only imagine, having never served aboard a sub, that "casualties" on such a ship with such a limited crew, become even more corrosive to the ship's readiness and morale.
Women can serve in many capacities, on ships is not one of them...just my pre femi-nazi opinion...
The whole women serving in combat had only one goal at the time...Females in the military could not get certain stars unless they had combat experience...that was what the feminists pushed for and were quite up front about it...But after that was said, the MSM dropped the subject quick...
A lot more don't.
Baby bubble-heads...