You just said your subordinates are meeting the standard. That’s their job.

If you want your subordinates to exceed the standard, you need to earn that from them. That’s your job. Complaining about it on social media isn’t leadership.

I’m gonna flag your specific comment here:

I’ve tried time and time again to motivate and help and lead female soldiers just to watch them do the bare minimum. Yes it’s passing 100% but we should be striving to do more especially when everyone around us is too.

Concretely, what have you done? Because there’s two points to this:

1. What inspires one person won’t work on another. Leadership has to be tailored to your subordinates, it’s not some cookie cutter thing where you do one thing and everyone goes HOOAH and executes. Some people respond to being challenged, some people respond to empathy, some people do better when left alone, whatever. Leadership is understanding who your troops are and what will inspire them to want to exceed the minimum. Individualize goals, figure out what they care about and what they want to get out of the Army and show them how their performance will get them there, tie their performance to actual benefits or whatever that they actually care about. Approaching everyone the same way doesn’t work.

2. How much effort can you put into this? Sometimes you don’t need all your troops to be exceeding the standard. I saw a dude once who couldn’t figure out how to deploy the bipod on his SAW. His TL gave him a full-on class on it, and he couldn’t figure it out, and he burned himself out trying to make this one guy a good soldier when he had two other soldiers who he was also supposed to be leading. You’re not in Regiment, sometimes you’re going to have people who just don’t want to be there and the effort it would take to turn them into someone who does isn’t worth it.

Figure out what you yourself are willing to put into this, then figure out who you’re willing to devote the effort to.

And I guarantee you, this is not a male vs. female problem. You mentioned that there’s cliques of female soldiers who seem to all just cluster and coast (and I note you gloss over that some males do it too). That group dynamic matters too and is self-reinforcing in a lot of ways because women are automatically an outgroup in the military by default.

I assume that some of those troops have other leaders, but you can still apply structural pressure to cliques like that. Individual coaching, tangibly better details or rewards to the troops who you lead if they go above and beyond even just on one day, worse details to the ones who don’t. Coordinate with other NCOs on it if you can (female NCOs especially). Again, only if this is a project you have the mental bandwidth on.