AN IMPORTANT ARTICLE on trailblazing women in the military worthy of your time.
Any time a woman is held back in the work place, which includes the U.S. military, we are hurting our strongest economic booster.
via Molly O'Toole at Huffington Post
Huffington Post’s ‘Unseen’ Women in Military
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3 Responses to Huffington Post’s ‘Unseen’ Women in Military
Women can kick arse. Plain and simple. Train her well and she will get the job done. And for those that have this antiquated notion that men can’t fight side-by-side with women in combat because of some “I have to protect the fair maiden”, come with me to the local dojo and let the 7th degree black belted lady have at ya.
Damn straight.
Back when I was working with the Army, there were women in brigade headquarters, which were generally located ten to twenty miles behind the lines. In an actual war, they would have been in easy range of airstrikes, and quite possibly would have been within artillery range of opposing forces. Even at the time, which was the late 1980s and early 1990s, the idea that women weren’t in danger of being in combat was largely fiction. That’s even more true today, thanks to their having to be used in Iraq and elsewhere to communicate with female civilians.
I’m old-fashioned enough to be a bit disturbed by the idea of women at war, but we’re there already. Female servicemembers shouldn’t have to accept limited career possibilities due to some largely artificial notion about keeping them out of harm’s way.