http://www.answers.com/topic/conscription

quite a ways down this page, after several online encyclopedia entries about what "conscription" is, comes one section entitled "The Gender Issue." This is the part that is pertinent, obviously, to our work. it talks about drafting women from a global perspective, the way it has been handle in the past, and how feminists, egalitarians, and masculinists view draft and their supporting reasons.