Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

suddenly when war comes is only mandatory for man

"gender is a social construct" only goes so far...

Including women would have been a legal nonstarter.

The german constitution restricts drafting to men[0] and would have to be changed before such a law could even be considered.

Before you ask, yes, the constitution also says that men and women need to be treated equally[1]

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_12a.html

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_3.html

> The german constitution restricts drafting to men[0] and would have to be changed before such a law could even be considered.

Just to add, the current government does not have the necessary majority to make such a change. Therefore making a law which includes drafting women is legally impossible without opposition collaboration.

The way to solve that is to introduce a different form of service to the state along side with military service so that the choice in practice become the same.

Is there anything in the constitution that forbids the government from requiring citizens to perform some kind of service to the government?

Gender is a social construct, biological sex is not. Confusingly, we use the same binary terms for both.

So there are some jobs that only a biological male can do, that a biological female is not qualified to do? If we made a list, which jobs do you think might be on it?

Getting killed in war is a job much better suited to males. They are more disposable, especially now in the age of sperm banking.

Nowhere near as binary as your False Dichotomy question makes it, but men are generally better suited to:

dig trenches

carry heavy rucksacks

move weaponry and equipment by hand

survive hand-to-hand combat (granted, their odds are still limited to below 50%)