Latest "women in the military" stories

Officers say Air Force’s new parental discharge policy is broken

Nine current and future parents contacted Air Force Times about their struggles to secure approval to leave the military early due to childbirth.

US military has more work to do integrating women, report finds

Women's perspectives are essential to U.S. national security strategy and operations, according to the report.

Opinion

Leaders need to be more than allies and work to close the gender gap

Women in the military still face barriers as basic as uniforms that were designed for a man's body, despite decades of allies championing their service.

The women who won the right to fly in combat

Meet a band of women aviators who kicked open the door to fly in combat in this excerpt from “The Fly Girls Revolt” by Eileen A. Bjorkman.