Women in the Military

A brief overview of important milestones in history. http://www.pdhealth.mil/clinical-guidance/women-s-mental-health

https://www.military.com/veterans-day/famous-women-veterans.html Bea Arthur She is mainly known for her roles on popular TV shows "The Golden Girls" and "Maude". She enlisted into the Marine Corps. at the age of 21 in early 1943. She was one of the first members of the Women's Reserves, she drove military trucks and was a typist. General Ann E. Dunwoody Dunwoody joined the Army in 1974 and by 1975 she was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Women's Army Corps. She was the first woman to serve as a four-star general in both the U.S. armed forces and Army.Her biggest impact was as a commander of the Army Material Command also known as AMC. She was one of the largest commands in the Army  which employed more than 69,000 people in the U.S. and 145 other countries. Grace Murray Hopper  Her work in the U.S. Navy from 1943-1966, is legendary among computer scientists and mathematicians. She founded the COBOL programming language in her early

This shows the statistics of active- duty women  in the military. A statistic that stands out and has to be changed. 

The role of women since 1914 has been very controversial.In the past 5-10 years women have been given a more prominent role such as Navy Seals and Air Force Pararescuers. Women make up 14,6% of the military mainly concentrated in the U.S. Army but the Air Force has the greatest female to male ratio. https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/12/04/history-of-women-in-the-u-s-military-mss-orig.cnn