Women at Arms

Women at Arms
Another Peril in War Zones:  Sexual Abuse by Fellow GIs by Steven Lee Meyers.

Quote from the article:
“A woman in the military is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq,” Representative Jane Harman, a Democrat from California, said at a Congressional hearing this year, repeating an assertion she has made a refrain in a campaign of hers to force the military to do more to address abuses.

My quotation of Howard Zinn is poignant here again.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

• HOWARD ZINN, A People's History of the United States