| DoD Women Get Awards At
Government and Technology Conference Eleven DoD military and civilian women are among the 30 winners to be honored here July 19 at the second annual Women of Color Government and Defense Technology Awards Conference. The awards will be presented in a 7 p.m. ceremony at the Washington Convention Center. The awards recognize exemplary women, corporations and government agencies "that are doing something meaningful about the 'glass ceiling' that has limited women and minorities to only 7 percent of the nation's most senior executives," said Tyrone D. Taborn, chairman of Career Communications Group Inc., the producer of the conference. Full Story |
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| The Changing Nature of Equality If the men who signed the Declaration of Independence could see America today, they'd probably be astonished. When they wrote "All men are created equal," they weren't being literal or inclusive. In the thinking of the day, all men were equal, but only if they were white, over 21 and owned a certain amount of property. Full Story |
Air Force Women Surveyed Report Health
Challenges During Gulf Service Air Force women deployed to the Middle East a decade ago faced unique health and emotional challenges as they successfully performed their missions during the Persian Gulf War, a military researcher noted. Air Force Reserve Col. Penny Pierce, a flight nurse who served six months in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, was one of 30 speakers at a recent Health Issues of Military and Veteran Women symposium at the Military Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Full Story |
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Women's Memorial Exhibit
Tells Story of Women Spies
The exhibit opened on March 26 and will run through Dec. 31. Curator Linda McCarthy, a 24-year CIA veteran and the founding curator of the CIA Museum, said the exhibit coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, the World War II-era forerunner to the CIA. Exhibit sponsor is the National Women's History Museum organization. Full Story |
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| DoD Expands Women's Advisory Panel
Agenda The 51-year-old Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services has a new charter that reflects changed times, a senior DoD official said. Charles S. Abell, assistant secretary of defense for force management policy, said DACOWITS would continue to provide the secretary of defense with advice and counsel "on those issues that are important to the professional opportunities of women and to help us recruit and retain a great force." Full Story |
DoD Lauds Women's Contributions During
History Month Observance "Women Sustaining the American Spirit," this year's theme for National Women's History Month, was chosen following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America, said Navy Undersecretary Susan M. Livingstone. The theme recognizes the profound role and impact of women in creating and sustaining the nation, Livingstone told a packed theater March 14 at Arlington National Cemetery's Women in Military Service for America Memorial. DoD's National Women's History Month observance marked the first by a federal agency at the memorial. Full Story |
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Valerie Moore is tenacious. Once she sets her sights on a goal, she says she'll keep trying until she succeeds. That tenacity and stick-to-itiveness helped her win first place in this year's Pentagon- sponsored Women's History Month essay contest at John Tyler Elementary School in Washington. She'd won second and third places in other DoD-sponsored contests this year. Full Story |
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Army astronaut to quarterback Hubble mission When Space Shuttle Columbia launches March 1 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., it will have on board an Army astronaut as the flight engineer. Lt. Col. Nancy J. Currie, veteran of three previous space flights, is one of seven crewmembers on the 11-day shuttle mission. One of her jobs will be to control the shuttle's robotic arm that will capture the Hubble Space Telescope. The crew's mission is to deliver and install two powerful solar arrays in the Hubble, along with a new controller to distribute that power throughout the observatory. The crew will also replace the gyroscope to help move the telescope from target to target. In Currie's flight engineer role, she'll play quarterback. |
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Soldier Wins Gold in Olympic Debut of Women's Bobsledding A soft-spoken National Guard soldier steered her two woman bobsled to a gold medal Feb. 19 by winning the first women's bobsled competition ever featured in the Olympic Games. Spc. Jill Bakken, 25, of the Utah Army National Guard and a member of the U.S. Army's World Class Athlete Program, drove herself and civilian brakeman Vonetta Flowers from Alabama into the pages of Olympic history. The unheralded duo's two-run total time in their bobsled -- USA
2 -- of 1 minute, 37.76 seconds, at the Utah Olympic Park, easily
beat the two German teams that walked away with the silver and bronze
medals. |
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Civil War Spies: Good Intell Knows No Gender Historians agree that World War II changed life for American women
in the 20th century. The Civil War had just as great an impact on
the lives of American women in the 19th century. |
Not A Real Man The Confederate soldiers appeared to have defeated their Union
opponents at the Battle of Shiloh. Confederate Lt. Harry Buford,
a handsome, scrappy officer, anticipated a glorious victory for
his army. But all that exuberance was to be short-lived. |
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