Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth's opposition to women serving in combat is a regressive ideology and rooted in ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a firestorm of backlash for ...

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen underscored the importance of having women in the military, including in combat roles, ...

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth said that Pete Hegseth is "flat-out wrong" in his view that women should not serve in the ...

All the women sitting here in uniform, stepping in and deciding to get into harm’s way and fight for their country, need to ...

Combat roles and military leadership should not be treated as the default domains of men. Entrenched gender biases, coupled ...

Illinois lawmakers disagree on the qualifications of President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

Mark Milley, the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, said that women should be actively deployed for military combat if ...

Austin's comments are the strongest statement from the military since Hegseth was tapped by Trump to lead the DOD.

The U.S. military did not lower standards for women in elite combat roles. The issue has come up in light of comments made by ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a firestorm of backlash for voicing his belief that women should not serve in military combat roles.

Pete Hegseth, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as Defense secretary, recently said he opposes women serving in combat roles in the U.S. military. “I’m straight up just saying ...