I believe that the answer to the question asked above is that making it official matter since the accepted view of woman are versatile and soft, so the making it official would change this view.
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This passage is meant to invoke a sense of national unity towards a common enemy. Wars are often seen as uniting in the sense that they bring people in a nation together.
