>who, as always, is glad to see an AU that women are emancipated
>(somehow?) about 50 years early in both the US and UK.

I suspect it's a side effect of the worldwide cultural shock that followed absolute confirmation of extraterrestrial life.

That, and I'm not so committed to period authenticity as to leave out, what, half of the original show's freaking cast. :)

>I admit, being
>about 70 years early in Russia is a bit of a surprise.

? The Russians have always been ahead of us in this regard. They had female fighter pilots as far back as the Second World War, and women fought very successfully as partisans in German-occupied Soviet territories. The Soviet Union sent a woman into space decades before we got around to it.

> Hell, we still have problems in the US with women in combat.

I have to admit I believe there are some pretty good arguments against sending women into combat on the modern battlefield. They have nothing to do with whether women are or aren't capable in combat itself, though, and are somewhat beyond the scope of this document.

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