This is inspired by this post from /u/minethecaft, onthe matter of conscription.

He makes the point that in Singapore, boys education is delayed by up to 2 years do to mandatory conscription. This delay isn't just a loss of time, but it's detrimental to education.

Studies show conscription has a negative long term outcome on education and lifetime economic wellbeing

Study on long term effects on conscription

We find that compulsory military service decreases the proportion of Dutch university graduates by 1.5 percentage points from a baseline of 12.3 per cent. In addition, being a conscript reduces the probability of obtaining a university degree by almost four percentage points. The effect of military service on earnings is also negative and long-lasting. Approximately 18 years after military service, we still find a negative effect of 3 to 4 per cent. The effect of conscription on educational attainment does not fully explain the wage reduction.

Even for a man who does resume his education after conscription, he is 1-2 years out of school. His math and chemistry will be rusty, as it would have been 2 years since he was using and looking at the formulas.

Conscription is a major inequality, yet still happens in so called "gender equal" countries such as Austria and Finland. And needless to say, feminists in Singapore do not seem to be making it a priority. I found a comment from this article to be interesting:

I am all for NS of some form, but I disagree men are disadvantaged because they serve two years. It instils discipline and character building if approached with the right mindset. Also, women who eventually have children are also "disadvantaged" in career progression and for a longer period

Written by a woman. But ok, if that's true, then the wage gap makes sense, because it would be expected that men are, on average, better and more disciplined workers with better character, right? Because if better discipline and character is a result of conscription, and only all men but no women are conscripted, then isn't that a logical assumption?