Chrissy Houlahan is on a mission to defend the role of women in combat after Pete Hegseth’s remarks

Chrissy Houlahan wanted to be a Navy pilot just like her dad and grandfather. But growing up in the 1980s there were very few ...

Women In War: Anatomy Of A Public Opinion Change

For more than 40 years, pollsters have been asking people about allowing women in combat roles. In 1982, when NORC asked ...

Are combat fitness requirements really lower for women?

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth raised eyebrows this week when he said in a speech to military generals that fitness standards for combat must "return to the highest male standard." ...

Duckworth says Hegseth's views on women in combat show he's unfit as Defense Secretary

Women veterans are denouncing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech to senior military leaders, specifically his agenda for ...

Pink Missiles: How Ukraine’s Female Warriors Are Trolling Russia

A batch of bright pink interceptor drones delivered to a female unit are the latest example of Ukraine's woman making their ...
Times of San Diego

Women have served in combat roles for a decade; the Pentagon is reopening the debate

The first three female rangers in 2015, from left: Capt. Kristen Griest, Maj. Lisa Jaster and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver. (Photo by Capt. Olivia Cobiskey-Haftmann/Office of the Secretary of Defense Public ...

Opinion - Hegseth is wrong: Women play an essential role in the military

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has proposed a "1990 test" to replace current military standards with those of 1990, which ...
The Atlantic

The Ban on Women in Combat Will Officially End

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will lift the Pentagon's ban on women serving in combat, according to several news reports — even though women actually have been serving in war zones for years. "The ...
PBS

‘Spitfires’ chronicles the daring flights of American women pilots during WWII

Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to ...

Woman fighter pilot earns coveted flying instructor badge for the first time

Squadron Leader Shivangi Singh is India's first female fighter pilot to earn the Qualified Flying Instructor badge, marking a ...
PBS

‘Spitfires’ tells the story of American women pilots in WWII

Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to ...