In the drought-prone mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, indigenous women are drawing on ancestral knowledge to combat water ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a firestorm of backlash for voicing his belief that women should not serve in military combat roles.

Or consider the Army Combat Fitness Test, which consists of six events. The Army originally wanted the test to be sex-neutral. But too many women failed, so the Army instituted lower scores for women.

Women have served in combat roles for the U.S. for more than 30 years, and some veterans and enlisted women worry Pete Hegseth might change that if he's confirmed as defense secretary.

According to CBS News, keeping women out of combat “can do real harm to the military by discouraging young women from joining the armed forces and convincing those already in uniform to get out ...

All combat roles in the U.S. military were opened to women by then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in January 2013. Two years later, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter lifted all gender-based ...

My personal experience with women in a combat role came in 2009 and 2010 in Iraq. As a civilian State Department field advisor, I had a security detachment led by a female lieutenant for a number ...

Women serving in combat are essential to the success of America’s armed forces. Rejecting that truth not only harms gender equality, but it also compromises national security.

Victor Joecks’ Dec. 1 column, “Women shouldn’t be in combat roles,” was a little convoluted and demeaning to the women in our military. In one instance, he agrees with Pete Hegseth that ...

Hegseth orders same physical requirements for men, women in combat roles, says US ‘allowed standards to slip’ By . Caitlin Doornbos. Published March 31, 2025, 12:35 p.m. ET.

Today, 160 women have earned their Ranger tabs, and the debate over whether women should serve in combat positions alongside men is generally considered settled. Or it had been, until very recently.

In addition to his past statements on women in combat, Hegseth faces a multitude of allegations of wrongdoing, from a sexual assault claim in 2017 − which he has denied and for which he did not ...