Female soldiers face challenges in U.S. military decade after bans lifted | USA TODAY
Ten years after the Pentagon repealed the ban on women in ground combat positions, female soldiers have risen in the ranks of frontline units.
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The Army, facing its worst recruiting crisis since Vietnam, strains to meet its priorities without more soldiers. Women seizing a more prominent role in combat, some soldiers say, could ease the recruiting crunch.
Yet the intractable problem of sexual assault and harassment in the ranks – reports surged in the Pentagon’s most recent survey – threatens progress. One female combat officer recalled during reporting of this story of being told by a male senior officer that she’d have received better reviews if she had slept with her superiors.
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