Word: womens
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Further underscoring the policy's failure is its lack of rational basis. Other limiting military regulations, such as the one preventing women from serving in combat--while still suspect--can be somewhat reasonably justified on the basis of physiological differences in ability between men and women that may become important on the battlefield. But homosexual soldiers come in all shapes and sizes, just like heterosexual soldiers. There is no external difference between the ability of gay and straight soldiers to serve well, as many homosexual soldiers have proven...
Expressing optimism about peace efforts throughout the world, over 100 women who have been victims of war and conflict met yesterday with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) and 30 other policy makers at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel...
...session was part of a nearly two-week-long conference titled Women Waging Peace Initiative, sponsored in part by the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The conference brought the delegates together to discuss ways to better integrate women into peacemaking processes...
...come together to create a network, a network of women who are determined to stop the violence," said former U.S. Ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt, director of the program on women and public policy...
Each of the women who attended the conference was given a laptop computer, along with a network connection modem and extensive Internet training. These resources will enable the women to maintain a constant dialogue about both their progress and their struggles in their peacemaking efforts when they return to their home countries, Hunt said...