Up first, women in combat. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to adopt gender neutral fitness standards for all combat roles. This directive formalizes practices that are ...

Hegseth suggested that women in combat roles "should not be held to lower standards." In January 2013, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta authorized lifting a 1994 ban on women serving in ...

In both perception and reality, combat sports can be male-dominated. But Kaur and a passionate group of Combat U women are working to change that – and paving the way for the next generation of female ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to end separate fitness standards for women in combat roles, a move he said will make the military more lethal, but that women servicemembers ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised that the United States would soon have the highest and equal combat standards for men and women in the military. “For far too long, we allowed standards ...

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, mandated that physical fitness requirements for combat jobs be “sex-neutral,” a move that is likely to significantly reduce the number of women who qualify.

In January 2013, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta authorized lifting a 1994 ban on women serving in direct ground combat roles. Beginning in January 2016, all military jobs opened to women ...

The Pentagon this week ordered the elimination of lower physical fitness standards for women in combat units, a move that is likely to hinder the recruitment and retention of women in particularly ...