re: DoD Secretary opens all military jobs to women

Several women I work with think that the disparity between women's requirements and men's requirements for pushups and the 2-mile is ridiculous.

When I asked the question as to whether or not as a compromise that the min/max rates for women would be 70% of that of men in the same age group, almost all of them thought that was a fairly reasonable compromise.

Using the 17-21 scale.

Current Pushup standards:

Men - 42 (Min), 71 (Max)
Women - 19 (Min), 42 (Max)

A change to 70% would change it to 30 to pass and 50 to max, which is considerably more challenging.

Current 2-mile run standards:

Men - 15:54 (Min), 13:00 (Max)
Women - 18:54 (Min), 15:36 (Max)

This is a bit harder to gauge. To do this, you take what you'd normally have to run to score a 75 and put the min there, then adjust the chart accordingly.

This would make the min time 17:18 and the max time 14:00