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What you need to understand about submarines is there isn't any wasted space. I was listening to a call-in radio show once where the topic was "where is the weirdest place you've ever slept?" A Navy veteran called in to state that the weirdest place he ever slept was "under the starboard torpedo tubes on a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine." And this wasn't any "find somewhere to crash out" deal - that's where his assigned bunk was. The worst part of it was he wasn't a torpedoman - he did something else on the boat and they assigned him to sleep under the torpedo tubes anyway.

Every cubic inch inside a submarine contains one of four things: working space, a piece of equipment, canned goods or a sleeping sailor. If they're going to assign women to these things, they need to make it so they don't have to change their uniforms in front of the other 129 people they're serving with. And "change in the head" is no solution because they're not forcing the men to do that.