I don't normally care for gender rights as I view them as unnecessarily partisan, however this particular issue has been bothering me for a while. Here's the background:

Civilian men have been able to vote in almost any society since democracy has existed. Of course this came with a few caveats; slaves were generally not allowed to vote or be opinionated at all for example but you get the idea. This power came with responsibility, however; men who could vote could also generally be drafted in these societies - minus the ruling elite - which made sense. On the contrary, women were not deemed responsible enough to have the right to vote, however they were compensated because they couldn't be drafted and were given comparatively easier house jobs such as cleaning, cooking, etc. While I don't agree with this as I am quite egalitarian, it's still fair within this societal framework. Then came the early feminists who - in the early 1900s - successfully ensured women's right to vote and participate in democracy at large, as men could. However, they still could not be drafted. The Second World war kicked off shortly afterwards and millions of men were drafted en masse, plenty of whom were killed or even maimed physically, psychologically or both. But women - even fit young women with no children to take care of - were spared the draft, despite being granted equal responsibility as men. WW2 wasn't just a one-off, either; plenty of wars have occured since then where societies that supposedly promote egalitarianism have drafted men but spared women from the draft, despite their ability to vote.

So here's my point. That seems unfair and I don't understand why so many are okay with this.