The Chazon Ish pronounced that if drafting women was included, that we should resist even if it meant death:
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They left no doubt as to the cause for their opposition – the army in Israel is a place where moral standards are relaxed, to say the least, and it was just not the proper environment for a Jewish daughter. Against their will, the girls would be affected by the atmosphere and the environment to which they would be exposed, a milieu which would replace the positive reinforcement they would have gotten at home from parents and family.
Rabbis Isser Zalman Meltzer and Tzvi Pesach Frank also issued pronouncements that a person must choose death rather than accede to the government decree, as did the Steipler Rav and Rav Shach. When another rabbi suggested that perhaps it would not be so terrible if the girls served under carefully supervised conditions, the Chazon Ish retorted that the rabbi’s opinion was totally worthless and, had he had any children, he would not have been able to say something like that The Chazon Ish actually ruled that the Sabbath should be desecrated to avoid compliance with a draft order and urged parents and teachers to inculcate young women with the laws of dying “al kiddush Hashem;’ in sanctification of the Name.