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Article: Women in the military: African-American military women: soaring beyond the glass ceiling.(Career Reports)
- Article from:
- The Black Collegian
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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The military has been hailed as a national model for equal opportunity. No affirmative action has been required for the past fifty years to ensure the rights of employment, training, equal salaries or advancement for anyone; women included!
Here's a look at the Service as it was in 1948.
It took Public Law 625, the Women's Armed Service Integration Act, signed by President Harry S. Truman on June 12, 1948, for women to have regular military status, thus opening the doors for "accepted" service to their country. That led to women having the right to have occupational-fields jobs in medical, nursing, dental and laboratories as technicians.
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