As a detailed source, I recommend researching the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS)), which has published decades of reports, especially since combatant platforms and assignments opened up to women in 1996, after years of iterative expansion into operational non-combatant duties from administrative or healthcare roles dating from the last two centuries, and through the present, as additional combatant platforms and specialties opened up for those who can qualify, in the last few years.
There is a lot of research and plenty of opinions out there. I personally am grateful to all citizens, regardless of their gender, who volunteer to go in harm’s way, accept the challenges and strictures of military life, work hard to qualify for their assigned role, and understand they may be killed, grievously wounded, or disabled while serving their country far from home and family.
With today’s asymmetrical battlefronts and over-the-horizon weaponry, “the rear” isn’t the relatively safe place it used to be.