What i believe the author is getting at is that while women are allowed to serve on subs in the navy's listed, few have actually done so.

 

Not saying that the listed navy's are conscript services.

 

Regards

I think the author is quite right ...

 

In the German Navy females serve since 2001 (and more than just "a few" -  already more than a hundered) on subs and there have been no problems.  Why should there be,  its not that much differend from a ship.  On the modern subs its even easier to seperate males and females because there is more space.

RAN subs were designed to do 60+ day patrols.  One has done a 6 month blue water duty cycle

There is little to compare between foreign, female crew members on non-nuclear subs patrolling for a  few weeks, and U.S. nuclear subs which do not return to home for months.  Aside from inevitable risks to a fetus from exposure to escaping rads, there is certainly a difference in mission intensity.  

 

Traditionally, qualified U.S. submariners bond as crews. Cohesion between members is based less on formalities of rank and more on performance abilities, such as removal of an unconscious crewman to safety. 

 

Injecting females into this environment will create a light-expectation bubbleheads who cannot be equally depended upon in emergencies requiring male strength.  It will entail specification of certain emergency duties to which some females cannot be assigned in emergencies. Yet, they take up more space (including their feminine supplies) than males.

 

The lawyer-driven agenda here, is not to increase equality for military females so much as to increase opportunities for litigation on their behalf at taxpayer expense.  Ending the DADT policy will have precisely the same effect.  Want to see  discrimination lawsuits in our Navy? Standby.

One aspect that has not been raised is the duration of the sub patrols.  All the nations mentioned with female submariners have conventional subs.  Nuke patrols can last several months.  How long is the typical conventional sub patrol?  Women serving on carriers and other US naval vessels do get pregnant, no?  Is there anything in the psych profiles of submariners which would preclude them from succumbing to sexual entanglements or conflict arising from associated tensions?  Would the lack of privacy on submarines prevent these problems from arising? 

I will be waiting for the first time a boomer has to alter its patrol and  surface (revealing its location) in order to off load a pregnant crew member. 

Maybe sea duty for female crew meembers should mandate the pill or other form of contraception.