Petition Petition for the allowence for women to serve frontline roles

Petition for women to have the right to serve in a front line capacity.
In the first world war black soldiers serving was a taboo.
It was only in the 1990's that gay men became eligible for service.

Now in 2011 women still face the same discrimination.
Despite the fact that many women are in the front line now serving as medics, and are getting shot at, and getting killed, it is still thought that a woman who is of equal physical ability to a man somehow has less to offer to this country. This petition is not one that asks for special exemptions in physical tests, it merely asks that we be given a chance. We can go through officer training to be an artillery officer at Sandhurst - which is the same training that men receive as as of yet there have been no issues of women not being able to do it.
In the workplace we have anti-discrimination laws but the armed forces seems untouched by them.

It quite simply makes no sense.