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Hegseth axes panel that encourages women to enter military
The advisory committee, which has existed for nearly a century, advances “a divisive feminist agenda,” a Pentagon spokesperson said.The closure of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services — one of dozens of study groups that offer guidance to the secretary — is Hegseth’s latest effort to rid the Pentagon of efforts that don’t fit into his “warrior ethos” vision for the department and service academies.
The former Fox News host, who has previously questioned the role of women in combat, has also shut down a program that boosts the number of women in peace building and conflict prevention efforts, calling it “woke” and “divisive.”
Former Defense Secretary George C. Marshall created the committee in 1951 under President Harry Truman to increase the number of female servicemembers and open up new career fields.