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Pentagon Opens Combat Jobs to Women, 'No Exceptions'
The US Defense Department may be making history by opening all combat roles to women, but advocates say that's just recognizing what's been true for a long time.
By Warren Olney • • 9m ListenThe US Defense Department may be making history by opening all combat roles to women, but advocates say that's just recognizing what's been true for a long time.
US Army Spc. Rebecca Buck
Photo: Tech. Sgt. William Greer/USAF
At the Pentagon yesterday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters that as long as they qualify and meet specific standards, women will be doing "everything else that was previously open only to men." Anne Coughlin is a professor at the University of Virginia Law School. Her research led to the filing of the first lawsuit that challenged the exclusion of women from ground combat.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Anne Coughlin
University of Virginia School of Law
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