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Based on talking to military personnel, I was under the impression that physical readiness wasn't the primary concern with putting women in more direct combat roles. I thought that there were two major problems: one being the effect on morale and support for a war when large numbers of women are coming home in bodybags; the second being the impact on a unit's internal dynamics when you deploy women alongside them.
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One of the biggest things they've found that impact women is during SERE training. If you don't know this is where they train you for when you're a PoW. They quite litterally beat the crap out of you. What they've found is that the vast majority of men who go through it never break by being beaten themselves, but many do when they see a woman being beaten. Our society is so strong in the belief of protecting women that these men can not handle being helpless while a woman is beaten.