The Layman's Answer that regular "UNINITIATED" people can understand is - The NFL, MLB, or MBA are all Team Sports - there are no women and there is no ban on Women, they are just not able to compete at the highest level. Special Operations warriors are the ultimate team players requiring a certain mindset, passion and physical capacities.
If women want to be channeled into something special, try the NSA or CIA where the physical demands and the skill set women posses (deception) can serve them well in stalking their prey.
Finally, in Special Ops not all men fit on every team and each one's psychological profile and/or skill set will determine who is matched up for missions. Not everyone is interchangeable even among the best of the best
“Special Operations warriors are the ultimate team players requiring a certain mindset, passion and physical capacities.”
I’ve posted on similar threads that there is indeed a place in CIA and NSA for women operators. That said, even if a woman was to meet ALL the criteria to join a team, such introduces a whole new difficulty instilled into most men from birth; that is, the need/desire to be a protector of women. Sure, team members would lay their lives down for each other, but adding a woman to that mix would throw the whole thing out of balance. It would require changing some very deep rooted aspects of human nature to succeed, if even possible.
The people pushing for adding women into the special operations community need to check their motives. To prove they are not simply doing such out of gender ‘issues’, perhaps they ought to lift any age restrictions first.