Women for Women International

Please check out this organization at their website: womenforwomen.org
Women for Women is an international non-profit that helps victims of sexual violence in war zones become active, contributing members of society. They are doing important work.

Army Recruiters

This blog article is about sexual harassment perpetrated by army recruiters. Also, check out the comments, there is a particularly interesting longer one with a few good links.

Is it safe for women to be serving in the military????

Read this link. If we can’t keep our women safe in the military, should they be serving?

The trouble with contractors

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/world/middleeast/13contractors.html?hp
More judicial red tape and army contractors run amok…

New NY times articles of note about women in the us military and in us politics

Nytimes articles:
Pregnant Marine 
Dowd on Clinton 
Steinem on Clinton

Link to SAPRO and US Defense Department

Here’s a link to the US Department of Defense’s website that is committed to responding to sexual abuse in the military. The site contains a newsletter for April 2007. There is some pretty interesting data in the newsletter, and an address to which readers can respond.

Jennifer Dyer and Rape Statistics in the United States

http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2005/02/17/image674848x.jpg
The following link is an article about Jennifer Dyer, a female soldier who accused a fellow officer of raping her while she was serving in the New Jersey National Guard. There is also a link on the left hand side of this site under the heading INTERACTIVE, Sexual Assault, that has rape statistics from [...]

And Now, Some People Who Are Against Women in Combat

Check out this site I just found. Its totally anti the idea of women fighting in the U.S. military. The link is part of a larger site who’s mission is, “to restore our republic to the status which emboldened our Founding Fathers to sacrifice their reputations, fortunes, families, and lives for our right to life, [...]

Rape Statistics and What the U.S. Military Should Be Doing

In an article that I found on alternet.com written by a woman named Rose Aguilar, the author states marks the shocking increase in rape allegations in the U.S. military. “In 2003, Congress began requiring the Department of Defense to report the number of sexual assault cases on file. In 2005, military criminal investigators received [...]

Myths about Female Soldiers

This is a really great site written by a U.S. soldier that debunks some myths about women in the military.