It strikes me as being a bit of a waste of money to make women their own armour, considering more than half of women can't even pass the basic upper strength tests. Keep in mind, those are the bare minimum requirements, so even just barely making those requirements would make you a big liability.
This is basically a gigantic publicity stunt by the DoD. It isn't like adding women to the active services is going to somehow increase their effectiveness, and if anything it won't be long before they start loosening standards to let more women in (since "10% of women make it through basic training" isn't so good for publicity), and that's before all of the practical issues.
And you somehow think "military loosens training standards for diversity" is going to be good publicity? Everybody knows women have lesser ability to grow muscle mass, it's not surprising they have trouble getting into the Marines (who have the toughest standards anyway). Anyway, if you can pass the basic strength tests, you aren't a liability. That's what the tests are for. Strength is important but it isn't the most important aspect in the age of machine guns and drone strikes, not by far.
Women are now signing up for positions in the infantry, not as drone operators. In the infantry (and the marines, etc), soldiers are expected to carry over 100 pounds of equipment at any given time, cover very long distances quickly, and do all of this while in the middle of a firefight. While strength isn't important in the old sense of swinging a sword or bayonet in close quarters, it is important in the sense that you have to carry so much weight for so long, which (if recent studies are anything to go by) is even worse for women due to muscle tear. This is, again, ignoring all of the temporary, cultural downsides, like the macho Western instinct to protect a woman above other priorities, the substantially increased costs from having to adjust equipment, and so on.
Also, the USMC minimum requirements are:
-3 pull ups
-100 crunches in 2 minutes
-3 miles in 18 minutes
Are those exceptionally hard requirements that only the strongest can manage? Once again, those are the
bare minimum requirements, and it isn't a good sign if most can't even manage to hit that.
EDIT: Whoops, I actually overestimated the minimum requirements. Hypothetically, a person could pass with 3 miles in 28 minutes or 40 crunches in 2 minutes.