From Female Officers Cross Cultural Frontier in Iraq:
Because of religious and cultural taboos on touching between men and women who aren’t married or closely related, an all-male Border Patrol could not search women. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, whose 101st Airborne is responsible for northern Iraq, called for women to join the new Iraqi security forces that the occupation authority was trying to create. He said he was worried that terrorists would use women to ferry equipment and messages back and forth.Several dozen responded. There were teachers, clerical workers and housewives as well as some former Kurdish guerrillas, known as pesh merga.
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Elite solders from the 101st Airborne were put in charge of training, and at first they worried that the women would be too timid and weak. Sgts. Jacob Dixson and Louis Gitlin said they were surprised to find that women did better than men in simulated missions.“They would always find the bombs fast and search fast,” Dixson said. Added Gitlin, “The women had something to prove, so they took everything more seriously.”
I’m not at all surprised that women would find bombs better than men.