Pentagon reviewing effectiveness of women in combat roles more than a decade after integration

Women were formally integrated into ground combat units in 2015, but now, more than a decade later, the Pentagon has recently ...
Task & Purpose

Women in ground combat jobs say they prove their ‘effectiveness’ every day

Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Julius Hackney. Women who have served in combat arms for the last decade say a new Pentagon-ordered review of their “effectiveness” is the latest frustrating chapter ...
Stars and Stripes

Pentagon orders review of ‘effectiveness’ of women in ground combat roles

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is conducting a six-month review of women serving in combat positions. “Our standards for combat arms positions will be elite, uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of ...
Task & Purpose

Pentagon orders review on ‘effectiveness’ of women in combat arms jobs

Pentagon leaders are directing a review of the “effectiveness” of women in combat arms jobs — a move that comes nearly a decade after women got the right to serve in these roles. Pentagon Press ...
NPR

Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions

The Pentagon is mounting a six-month review of women in ground combat jobs, to ensure what it calls the military "effectiveness" of having several thousand female soldiers and Marines in infantry, ...
Yahoo

Women in ground combat jobs say they prove their ‘effectiveness’ every day

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women who have served in combat arms jobs say a new Pentagon review of their "effectiveness" is the latest example of doubts ...