First Woman Enters Infantry as Army Moves Women into Combat RolesAn American woman has now joined the US Army infantry in one ofthe first moves toward...Schouten, Lucy
Career advancement. Men and women are both given opportunities to join the army, but with the understanding that different roles require different physical, emotional attributes. This should mean in turn that there are multiple routes to promotion so that women have equal opportunities without having...
The Women’s Army Corps (WAC) began as the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942, created in response to the war effort facing an acute manpower shortage at the beginning of World War II. Early in 1941, U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers (1881-1960) of Massachusetts introdu...
In World War II, a total of 350,000 women served in the U.S. military. More than 60,000 women served as Army nurses and over 14,000 served as Navy nurses. Even though they were far from combat, 67 Army nurses were captured in the Philippines by the Japanese in 1942. They were he...
propaganda warned women in the auxiliary forces not to becomeflintenweiber, or “gun women,” a derisive term for Soviet women fighters. In the last, desperate months of the conflict, Hitler gave in and created an experimental women’s infantry battalion, but the war ended before it could ...
The army's standard fragmentation grenade has a blast radius of 15 meters. Infantrymen are required to demonstrate the ability to throw a grenade 35 meters; military women, only 25 meters. In practice, many military women cannot throw even that far. Browne tells the story of a Sergeant Leigh...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are the armed forces of Israel, comprising the Israeli army, navy, and air force since its establishment in May 1948.
Dedicated in 1997, the Women's Memorial is the only major American memorial to honor women who have served in the United States military since the American Revolution. Tucked behind the memorial is the Military Women's Memorial Education Center and museum, housing exhibits and archives telling the...
The assertion that the US military would ever fight for the rights of women abroad is absurd considering it doesn’t even protect its own female soldiers from their male comrades.
A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series D, Holdings of the Virginia Historical Society Part 1: Tidewater Virginia, 1864–1888 UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Research Collections in...