All could soon be fair in drafting for a war. U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, said they support women registering for the draft in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, The Washington Post reported.

This follows Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s December decision to open up all combat roles to women in the military.

“Now that the restrictions that exempted women from [combat jobs] don’t exist, then you’re a citizen of a United States,” Neller said, according to The Washington Post. “It doesn’t mean you’re going to serve, but you go register.”

Currently, all 18- to 26-year-old men — including citizens, refugees and other residents — in the United States must register for the draft. Only nine countries require both men and women to register for the draft: China, Eritrea, Israel, Libya, Malaysia, North Korea, Peru, Taiwan and Norway, according to CBC News.

An all-male draft is antiquated. It’s 2016. Equality is all the rage. If we keep telling ourselves women can do anything men can do, then there’s no reason to exclude women from the draft. Requiring women to register for the draft is also the next logical step from letting them into combat roles.

Receiving a letter from the Selective Service System is spooky. But if men have to go through that, women should too. Many women don’t like the thought of being selected to fight a war — but neither do men. And no parent wants their child to go to war, but sacrifice is the name of the draft game.

Being drafted into the U.S. military doesn’t necessarily mean engaging in combat roles, anyway. The military needs pilots, technicians and a slew of other roles in order to successfully fight a war.

However, there’s no guarantee that women won’t be assigned less active, gender-specific roles within the military. Conservative attitudes regarding gender still stand, especially in the military.

Not all men are natural fighters. Women are not weaker and more fearful than men. There are male hippies and female hippies, just as there are male lieutenants and female lieutenants. Aggressiveness isn’t a gendered trait — it’s a human trait. Credit that to America’s great tradition of suppressing male emotions and sensationalizing female ones.

We’ve been socialized to associate women with peace and domestic stability and men with strength and courage, and the U.S. draft policy is an overlooked symptom of this.

We can’t change sexist attitudes without first changing institutional policies that support those attitudes. We must take baby steps to dismantle the patriarchal precedent looming over America. That begins, in part, with amending the draft policy.

A male-only draft shows children that men belong in the military, and women should stay out of it. Who knows? Without the outdated standard of exclusively forcing men into the draft, more women may be motivated to enlist.

This isn’t to say that an all-inclusive draft would also be all-inclusive in terms of disabilities or health conditions. Just as men can be excused from registering for the draft due to medical reasons, pregnant women probably shouldn’t be allowed near a warzone.

And even if the draft is extended to women, this does not mean that those registered will enter combat any time soon — the last draft occurred more than 40 years ago.

If not resolved now, extending the draft will probably come up the next time the United States is considering a war, which would cause much more of an uproar. That’s why we need to act on this as soon as possible — to make the transition smoother for when the country needs recruits.

Standardizing the draft now would make a statement to the rest of the world that women are just as worthy as men when it comes to defending their country. Either abolish the draft or make it equal. Sexism is the real enemy in the war at home.