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  2. Women in the United States Army - Wikipedia

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    As of 2020, there were 74,592 total women on active duty in the US Army, with 16,987 serving as officers and 57,605 enlisted. While the Army has the highest number of total active duty members, the ratio of women-men is lower than the US Air Force and the US Navy, with women making up 15.5% of total active duty Army in 2020.

  3. Women in the military - Wikipedia

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    Until 1993, 67 percent of the positions in the Army were open to women. In 2013, 15.6 percent of the Army's 1.1 million soldiers, including National Guard And Reserve, were female, serving in 95 percent of occupations. [82] As of 2017, 78 percent of the positions in the Army were open to women.

  4. Women in the military by country - Wikipedia

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    Today women can serve in every position in the French military, including submarines [71] and combat infantry. [72] Women make up around 15% of all service personnel in the combined branches of the French military. They are 11% of the Army forces, 16% of the Navy, 28% of the Air Force and 58% of the Medical Corps.

  5. Women in warfare and the military (2000–present) - Wikipedia

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    2000. 27 March: Elza Kungayeva, an 18-year-old Chechen woman, is abducted and murdered by a Russian Army Colonel during the Second Chechen War. Her murder was one of the first cases in which Russian authorities promptly and publicly acknowledged a war crime perpetrated by Russian federal forces against civilians in Chechnya.

  6. Women in combat - Wikipedia

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    Women in combat refers to female military personnel assigned to combat positions. The role of women in the military has varied across the world’s major countries throughout history with several views for and against women in combat. Over time countries have generally become more accepting of women fulfilling combat roles.

  7. Timeline of women in warfare and the military in the United ...

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    3 June: RADM Sandra Stosz assumed command of the Coast Guard Academy, becoming the first woman superintendent of that institution, and the first woman to command any U.S. service academy. [3] 4 June: Heidi Shyu became United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology.

  8. Timeline of women in warfare in the United States from 1950 ...

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    Captain Lillian Kinkella Keil, USAF Colonel Ruby Bradley, United States Army Colonel Irene O. Galloway, United States Army Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson, United States Army Master Chief Petty Officer Anna Der-Vartanian, USN (left) shakes hands with Major General Jeanne Holm, USAF (right) Captain Ruth Alice Erickson, USN Lieutenant colonel Mercedes O. Cubria, United States Army Chief Warrant ...

  9. Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the ...

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    Dr. Charles Moskos (a member of the commission) and Ms. Laura Miller, both of Northwestern University, conducted a survey of 1651 U.S. Army soldiers on the roles of women in the U.S. armed services in 1992. Of the women soldiers surveyed, over 70% favored allowing women volunteers to serve in combat roles, but only 12% said they would volunteer.