Doubtful I would vote for a woman to be commander in chief of the armed forces, but I would if she was the most qualified candidate (likely by virtue of all the other ones sucking).
Uh, "tradition"? All presidents have also had blue eyes. Does that mean we should never elected a brown-eyed president?
Tradition counts for something, but tradition is not an excuse to never change. Tradition is simply a blockade when it interferes with progress.
Actually, by definition, progress means "going forwards." That would be changing nothing, so it wouldn't be progress.
Why is not electing women a tradition? It just has not happen. By that argument, slavery was a tradition, as was the feeding of Christians to lions.
Behind quoting the Bible to tell someone they are wrong, saying "we shouldn't do that because we have not done it before" is my least favorite argument for anything.
In the beginning of human life (or in the Garden of Eden, if you like), humans did nothing.
By the logic of "tradition is best", we should just sit here, doing absolutely nothing, because anything else would not be adhering to tradition.
Actually, it has, for millenia, been the goal of all mankind, civilized or not, to prevent at all cost any sort of change whatsoever.
Europeans invented the "Great Chain of Being" that linked God Almighty through His angels to the pope, then through Roman Emperor (the German one) and his vassels, then the peasantry; beasts of the field and crops came afterwards; heretics and Jews rounded out the list just before the Chain stopped at the fiery gates of Hell.
The Chinese had the Mandate of Heaven: if the Emperor's rule is favored by the celestial gods, immobility reigns forever; if not, "change," via Mongol hordes, pestilences, political upheavals, afflicts the country.
The Polynesians took it to the greatest extreme: Their kings prized stasis to the point of hardly moving physically at all!
In short, "progress" was an unspeakable abomination, because it threatened the earthly perfection that their ancestors (or gods, of God) spent creating. It was only until Victorian England (1840s or so) that change began to be prized for its own sake.
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