There's always more that can be said, but you might find this previous answer to a similar question useful. The most salient bit:

Mary Ludwig Hays is often identified as the woman who fought at Battle of Monmouth in 1778 and her story is often framed as that of a camp woman who courageously took up her husband's position at a cannon when he was injured. There are markers for her at the Monmouth Battlefield and her presence is framed as a woman who bravely did something other women didn't - or couldn't - do. Historian Linda Grant DePauw however, starts her article, "Women in Combat: The Revolutionary War Experience" in a January 1981 edition of Armed Forces & Society by stating plainly:

During the American War for Independence tens of thousands of women were involved in active combat.

Grant DePauw would go on to establish the Minerva Journal of Women and War and published multiple pieces exploring how "Molly Pitcher" wasn't one woman, rather, the Revolutionary armies were teeming with women, and the moniker was used for some of them and for a variety of reasons, their histories were minimized or merged into one. (This is a great piece that gets into the history of "Molly Pitcher" as a historical figure.)

All of which is to say, to paraphrase one of the upcoming conference panelists, girls and women are 50% of the population. Wherever there are humans, there are going to be girls and women, and that includes places and times of warfare and conflict.