To this still day women are still trying to be able to fight in direct combat ground, but the government and Obama's new policies are interfering with that all for the sake of "diversity."
In January of last year, the 1994 Combat Exclusion Rule lessened its restrictions and is now suppose to allow women in the armed forces to be assigned into certain situations now involving them in direct combat ground. The official deadline for this is suppose to be set by the summer of June 2016. Now no one is getting too excited yet because some government officials still disagree and don't want women in the forces to be labeled as "anti women."
According the FrontPage Mag website, 88% of women are opened for jobs in the Navy, and 99% in the Air Force. The goal is to open up every possible job for these women but realistically it has to be approved first by the Secretary of Defense.
The armed forces are always opening up new positions for women but still have yet to really push the ground combat, which irritates so many women. Many reason why the government still hasn't made any final decisions about this is because they don't believe women have the social and dominate traits to fight in combat as much as men do. But that in my opinion makes no kinds of sense because a women may not be as strong as a man can be physically but mentally and emotionally a women can be stronger than a man. I think women get taken for granted and are put in a certain category and that is why they still to this day are not officially by law allowed to fight in direct ground combat.
Works Cited
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/sacrificing-military-women-on-the-altar-of-diversity/
You do a nice job of picking a very important topic and relaying data on that for your readers' information.
ReplyDeleteThere were sections, though, that I got a bit confused. What do you mean when you say that some government officials don't want women to be labeled "anti-women"? Did you mean they didn't want to be labeled that? Why does it matter to them? Can you quote them? Because it surely is anti-woman's rights and why do they care anyhow? Really, I am intrigued with this and want to learn more from you.
Also, from the way war is waged now, aren't most women it the front lines regardless?
Finally--plump up that works cited. You need more than the URL: you'll need names of authors, titles of pages, etc. Follow MLA or APA style on this.
My aunt is in the ARMY, and this is a great topic to expand on, I see you already talked about September, 11 .; which I was just about to include. My topic is Women Rights and this blog has some interesting key points of how women are taken advantage and put in categorizes; which I included in my blog also.
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