I’m Finnish and did do my service, and we had quite a few women.
Most women get placed as drivers or leaders, but “enlisted” ranks (sergeant etc) instead of officers. This isn’t to do with sexism, well mostly not, it’s just that the officer training really is also physically very demanding and goes by scores from all sorts of different tests (mostly physical) so usually they don’t end up there.
However I do have a slight issue with your plain statement of “a woman can aim and pull the trigger just as easily as a man” because you’re implying a frontline soldier, and that shit is physically demanding. Google “syöksyen eteenpäin” or “tetsaus”. Basically a fronline soldier is equipped with some 10-15kg of gear and a rifle and you have to be able to crawl then jump forward, then crawl then jump forward, and that’s your method of progressing through the territory under enemy fire. And if your fighting partner (fighting partners arr the smallest unit, below a squad) or squadmate of 100kg gets shot, you are supposed to be able to evacuate them.
And while I could list a lot that the women did better then men or at least as well (most), evacuating men isn’t one of the things they’re really as good as. Ofc there are small men as well, but there’s no denying the difference in muscle strength, and the scrawniest guys usually wouldn’t necessarily be in the frontlines if there was a better place to put them.
Which is why most of the women I served with ended up as things which aren’t frontline soldiers. Drivers and leaders of supply and medical squads. Ofc there might be fighting but it’s less likely.
Which I think is pretty good, as, well, I’m not gonna argue women are better at organisational stuff (I think they might be but positive sexism is still sexism), but they’re definitely not worse than men. So makes sense to use them where their strengths shine and weaknesses don’t show.
In Finland every male musters the year they turn 18 and roughly 75% end up going through military service all the way.
But yeah in like >90% of stuff definitely equal. But no they weren’t better shots despite the myth. Although my sample size was only a dozen or two but none of them were especially crack shots. They weren’t bad but they weren’t anything special either
Again, you’re really thinking of frontline soldiers, which is kind of a small part of the jobs in the military. And you’re pretty much thinking of the army(and/or marines).
I’d say that women are people, like men, and like men, they have more individual strengths and weaknesses than they do as a group. Military is just built around the physicality of men, but most of the taller girls kept up pretty well, just like it was easier for the taller guys to keep up with things.
And the reason the girls usually didn’t get placed in the frontline groups was that those are the shortest and easiest to train, and every one of those women volunteered, so they’re didn’t want to just take the shortest and simplest way out (as the training and thus service time for basic infantry was months shorter).
Also I know of at least one girl who was an infantry squad leader (leader of a jaeger squad jääkärialikersantti) and went off to become an infantry officer after her service. She tried getting in the first time, but as her tests weren’t in the top, she wasn’t accepted, but everyone can go through the training after their service with the next group of arrivals if they so choose and fulfill certain requirements. So she should be an officer now. Last saw her some 16 years ago when she went off to the after-service officer course. So I’d reckon she might be a lieutenant or even an overlieutenant or maybe even a captain if she’s been actively going to reserve drills. Probably not, but at least a vänrikki (one under lieutenant, ~ensign, nato rank OF-1)
But like my point is that they’re really not that different.
One thing I did kinda dislike though is that the physical requirements were less for women than men. Because I think they should be set by objective needs and not just be scoring the physically best of each sex.