Women in the Military
Sidney Teske
I am in the High School Academy at LWIT. I enjoy going
through high school and college at the same time. College is so
much cooler the high school. I enjoy writing essays and taking
English classes. This essay I wrote was not based on radical
feminism. I just think that women should be treated more
equal, even in the military. And yes, I am a guy.
Percentage of women in military, 2013
Percentage of women/men
120
100
14.6
13.6
85.4
86.4
83.6
Military
Army
Navy
6.8
16.4
15.7
19.1
84.3
80.9
Coast Guard
Air Force
80
60
40
93.2
20
0
Marine Corps
Division of military
Men
Women
Over the history of mankind, many people have argued
about whether women should be allowed to serve the military
or not. Women were first admitted to join the military in 1901,
after women aided the military by nursing in the AmericanSpanish war because the armed forces could not find enough
male nurses to serve the troops. And for over a century, women