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[20] [21] Other countries conscript women into their armed forces, but with some difference in e.g. service exemptions and length of service; these countries include Israel (where women are about 40% of conscripts drafted every year [22]), Myanmar, Eritrea, Libya, Malaysia, North Korea, Peru and Tunisia. [23]
Senate Democrats have added language to the annual defense authorization bill to require women to register for the draft, prompting a backlash from Republicans and social conservatives and ...
Women not required to register for draft. The Senate Committee on Armed Services voted June 14 to advance the National Defense ... The most recent draft was in 1973 during the Vietnam War.
"To be honest, I was dodging the draft," the 79-year-old said. From 1940 to 1973, the U.S. relied on the military draft, a lottery system that would select registered American men to serve the ...
The First Peacetime Draft. 1986. Goossen, Rachel Waltner; Women against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941–1947 1997 online edition Archived March 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine; Westbrook, Robert.
Women in Norway have been able to fill military roles since 1938, and during World War II, both enlisted women and female officers served in all branches of the military. However, in 1947 political changes commanded that women only serve in civilian posts, with reservists allowing women to join them in 1959.
“Pete Hegseth’s views on women in the military are outdated, prejudiced, and ignore over 20 years of evidence proving women’s effectiveness in combat roles,” said Erin Kirk, a Marine Corps combat veteran. She said women have served honorably and effectively as pilots, logistics personnel, intelligence operatives and infantry grunts.
U.S. armed forces leaders said on Tuesday that women should be required to register for the military draft, along with men.