Panel: Let Women Serve in SubmarinesROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Andy Cross/Denver Post/Getty Images Women served on both sides of World War II, in official military roles that came closer to combat than ever before. The Soviet Union, in particular, mobilized its women: Upward of 800,000 would enlist in the Red Army during the war, with more than ...
Once America entered World War II, however, men went off to war by the millions andwomen stepped into the civilian and military jobsthey left behind. Women were proud to serve their country—but how did their service during the war inspire their fight for social change and equality?
The term “comfort women”Footnote1, which is the English rendition of the Japanese euphemistic term “ianfu,” denotes tens of thousands of women who were either recruited, deceived, or forcibly abducted to fulfill the role of sex slaves for the Japanese military during the Asia Pacific War (...
Bettmann / Getty Images Republican Party: 1964 Margaret Chase Smith holds the distinction of being the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for president at a Republican convention. She was also the first woman elected to serve in both the House of Representatives and the Senate,...
She was the first woman to serve on the Court. Before her tenure on the Court, she was a judge and an elected official in Arizona, serving as the first female Majority Leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. Samuel Alito took her seat in October 2005....
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In theory this meant that women could be called up to serve in one of the women's auxiliary services (although most conscripts would be directed into the ATS, munitions industry or civil defence). It did, however, rather change the purely voluntary nature that had been existing in the WA...
Regardless of her relationship with the man who killed her and the circumstances of her life, each of these women deserves to be remembered by name and as more than just another statistic. Almost every woman’s death leaves grieving family and friends. There should be no hierarchies in ...
Visitors stood in line for hours at the front gates. Many of those who entered got their first taste of Pepsi-Cola. Tatyana came with a new boyfriend, a dashing cadet at one of the country‘s elite Suvorov military academies, who, after studying English, had been trained by his teach...