The Laurie A. Miller Leadership Award for the Advancement of Women in White Collar Defense winner is Joan McPhee of Ropes & Gray. “Joan McPhee’s achievements in her career as a white collar defense attorney best exemplifies Laurie A. Miller’s groundbrea...
Rachel S. Harris
feminist activists actually represent only a minority of Army women. Most women soldiers do support opening the combat arms to women, however only on a volunteer basis and with physical qualifications for those jobs. Most Army women are not interested in serving in the combat arms, and roughly...
The abolitionists in general tended to regard slavery as an unmitigated evil. The small Northern farmer also feared slavery as a system of cheap labor against which it was difficult to compete.The South, eager to conserve the status quo, developed a bellicose defense of the system, which was...
As America’s war machine went into action, the government initiated a massive publicity campaign to persuade women to replace men on assembly lines in factories and defense plants. They produced posters and film reels of glamorous women in the workplace to entice women to serve their country as...
received public assistance—his interpretation of women-focused services—but the mostly white occupiers refused to surveil women of color in the name of the proper allocation of state resources. They remained in protest and were subsequently arrested, just short of two weeks in The Women’s ...
Defense-(Score/Judging) The aspect of handling the opponent's offense - by head movement, footwork, blocking, while controlling the range and balance. Dirty Fighting-Holding an opponent's head down and hitting face with uppercuts or ribs with hooks, rabbit punches, elbowing, forearm in the ...
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...
when she took the stand in her own defense, would establish the fact that not only had she been repeatedly beaten by the deceased, but that on the night in question he told her he would kill her, viciously beat her and mauled her with a knife. But there is no self defense in the ...
Former White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway used her speech to pitch women and non-MAGA voters on Donald Trump. "We win with addition, not division," Conway said on Wednesday. “In Donald Trump’s Republican Party, everyone is welcome.” She pointed to Trump’s record of hiring wom...