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The Molly Pitcher Project

WWI & WWII limited, crisis driven roles

WWII (1942-1943) 5 separate women’s service corps established (400,000 women serve)

1948 WASIA Congress recognized women’s service and allowed women to serve in peacetime but capped service at 2% and restricted specialties and promotions, women are barred from combat ships, combat aircraft, all ground combat units

1967- Cap is lifted and promotion ceiling is removed

1972- Women enroll in ROTC programs

1976- Women accepted at all service academies

1978- Women who become pregnant or adopt are no longer discharged

1988- DOD establishes the "risk rule" to harmonize combat restrictions with the effect of opening new positions

1991- First Gulf War watershed event for combat restrictions

1992- Congress repeals combat aircraft and combat ship bans

1994- DOD establishes the Combat Exclusion Policy which prohibits women from assignment to direct ground combat units

2001- CEP hampers commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan who begin a game of semantics

2012- CEP reviewed and lessened but not removed

Coast Guard 100% open to women

Air Force 99%

Navy 94%

Army 70%

Marines 62%

Women comprise 15% of the military but only 7% of flag officer ranks

Class action law suit against the Department of the Army alleging gender based discrimination

Chief of Staff of the Army: General Odierno

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/02/army-dod-to-open-14000-army-jobs-women-021812w/

Crisis Driven Equality

Have you ever wondered why there are few to almost no women in the senior ranks of the military?

Can you imagine a General Diana Petraeus or an Admiral Michelle Mullen?

Where are we today?

Effects of the Combat Exclusion Policy

7% women in flag officer ranks

0 female service chiefs

0 female CJCS chiefs

0 female combatant commanders

0 female joint task force commanders

Women not trained appropriately for the jobs they are doing

Molly Pitcher Project

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