Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sophia A. Nelson covers Law, Politics, American Lifestyle & Culture. For more than seven decades—beginning with the landmark 1948 ...

“I am very proud of all the women I’ve heard today. I thought they spoke very well,” 92-year-old World War II veteran Navy Lt. Ruthanna Maxwell Weber said at the Women in Military Service for America ...

The Pentagon is terminating a decades-old advisory group that offered recommendations on how to support women serving in the military, including past suggestions that women needed properly fitting ...

U.S. Marines pose with guests during the 17th annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Women In Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington, Virginia, May 20, 2014. (Lance Cpl. Alejandro Sierras/U.S.