Tag: Gender Issues

Equality in the ability to fight and die for one's country translates to equality in citizen expectations. (AP Photo)

A female Marine’s perspective on the military draft

Kyleanne Hunter · February 16, 2016 5:01 am

"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other," said former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Albright withdraws ‘place in hell’ comment

Curt Mills · February 12, 2016 11:40 pm

Only 29 percent of the public believes in the draft, and 58 percent oppose it, according to the same poll. (AP Photo)

Don’t draft women, abolish the draft for men

Washington Examiner · February 12, 2016 6:00 am

Gen. Robert Neller said Thursday that the Marine Corps shouldn't open all of its combat jobs to women, but added that the service is prepared to salute smartly and follow orders from Pentagon leadership. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Marine leader on lifting gender ban: ‘We follow orders’

Jacqueline Klimas · February 11, 2016 5:40 pm

The selective service costs taxpayers $23 million a year, and the last service member to be drafted entered the Army in 1973. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

National Security

House members introduce bill to eliminate draft

Jacqueline Klimas · February 11, 2016 3:59 pm

A new poll shows that 52 percent of women oppose requiring women to register for the draft. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

National Security

Poll: Most women oppose registering for the draft

Kelly Cohen · February 10, 2016 5:29 pm

Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem are telling women how to vote -- not because Hillary Clinton is a great candidate, but because she shares the same organs. (AP photos)

Women can support whomever the ‘hell’ they want

Ashe Schow · February 10, 2016 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

How women voted in New Hampshire

Ashe Schow · February 10, 2016 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Pro-abortion group outraged by silly Doritos commercial

Ashe Schow · February 8, 2016 4:46 pm

Albright has "has been saying this for many, many years," Clinton said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday. "She believes it firmly, in part because she knows what a struggle it has been, and she understands the struggle is not over." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

No offense, Clinton tells female Bernie backers

Dan Friedman · February 7, 2016 9:32 pm

The U.S. military is currently planning to scrap all limits on placing women in combat roles (the current limits do not keep women totally out of combat). (AP file photo/Mel Evans)

Beltway Confidential

Christie, Bush, Rubio open to conscripting women into combat; Cruz says it’s ‘nuts’

Timothy P. Carney · February 7, 2016 8:52 pm

"I have heard about it. It's disgusting. Look, we don't want that crap," Sanders said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Bernie Sanders on ‘Bernie bros’: ‘We don’t want that crap’

Kelly Cohen · February 7, 2016 6:02 pm