- Women are no longer seen as just being secretaries and nurses in the military. There is more equality between male and female.
- Women's role in the military allows them to fulfill their citizenship, have an equal opportunity to aspire, participate, and contribute to society just as men have done for the past many years.
- New creation of Sexual Assualt Awareness Programs
- Women are afforded the opportunities to be successful in same challenging positions as men. (i.e. Ranger School, Infantry school)
- Women are not seen as inferior as much as in the past and now have more opportunities to lead and be successful as leaders serving their country.
In the US and other NATO countries, women are barred from participating in some ground combat roles. However, the fluid lines of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have
put the units in which women serve, such as military police, supply and support, in the line of fire. This challenges traditional ideas about what constitutes a “combat” position just as female helicopter pilots did during the Persian Gulf War. “Women are fighting, they are in the streets and on the patrols,” says Pat Foote, a retired US Army brigadier general (quoted in Carreiras and Kümmel 2008). “They are running the convoys, getting shot at and shooting back.” Manning, a retired Navy captain, concurs: “We now have units under fire with men and women in them. We have experience of women firing weapons. They don’t fall to emotional bits." Nor has the American public fallen to bits”
- Women want to serve and be treated equally.
- Women's role in the military allows them to fulfill their citizenship, have an equal opportunity to aspire, participate, and contribute to society just as men have done for the past many years.
- New creation of Sexual Assualt Awareness Programs
- Women are afforded the opportunities to be successful in same challenging positions as men. (i.e. Ranger School, Infantry school)
- Women are not seen as inferior as much as in the past and now have more opportunities to lead and be successful as leaders serving their country.
In the US and other NATO countries, women are barred from participating in some ground combat roles. However, the fluid lines of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have
put the units in which women serve, such as military police, supply and support, in the line of fire. This challenges traditional ideas about what constitutes a “combat” position just as female helicopter pilots did during the Persian Gulf War. “Women are fighting, they are in the streets and on the patrols,” says Pat Foote, a retired US Army brigadier general (quoted in Carreiras and Kümmel 2008). “They are running the convoys, getting shot at and shooting back.” Manning, a retired Navy captain, concurs: “We now have units under fire with men and women in them. We have experience of women firing weapons. They don’t fall to emotional bits." Nor has the American public fallen to bits”
- Women want to serve and be treated equally.