Women in the Military

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Women in the Military: Should combat roles be fully opened to women?" CQ Researcher November 13, 2009.
The number of women serving in the military has reached historic highs in the past decade, with women now representing more than 14 percent of the total force. In 2008, Ann E. Dunwoody, the Army's top supply officer, became the first female four-star general. This fall the Army tapped Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King to head its ultra-tough drill-sergeant training program, the first woman to hold the post. At the same time, controversy swirls around the under-the-table recruitment of Army and Marine women into some ground-combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan — which is contrary to official military policy — as well as the Navy's plans to add women to submarine crews. Advocates of continuing to bar women from those jobs argue that sexual tensions and mistrust harmful to the military mission inevitably accompany gender-integration of combat teams. Meanwhile, women vets are suffering high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder and homelessness.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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Lane, Linda Rochell. "Military, Black Women in The" Black Women in America. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Sex Scandals

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Greenblatt, Alan. "Sex Scandals: Do the media pay too much attention to adultery?." CQ Researcher 20.3 (2010): 49-72.

From Thomas Jefferson to Tiger Woods, sex scandals have been a recurring feature of American life. Today, text messages and surveillance cameras have made it harder to keep affairs secret, and the proliferation of Web sites and cable TV shows means that a politician or celebrity who cheats is more likely than ever to be exposed. Politicians and clergy who preach “family values” have had their personal hypocrisy revealed. In the wake of scandal in recent years, governors have resigned, a president has been impeached and senators have been caught using prostitutes and soliciting in an airport men's room. Nevertheless, questions remain about the ethical and journalistic propriety of publicizing private acts. Does the public have a right to know about private affairs — especially when they are not related to official duties? Should the news media focus on more “serious” issues?From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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Animal Rights

Clemmitt, Marcia. Animal Rights: Is the treatment of animals improving? CQ Researcher 8 Jan. 2010. CQ Researcher. Web. 11 Jan. 2010.
The passage of dozens of tough state animal-protection laws last year reflects growing public interest in animal welfare. Today, many Americans view pets as family members, and some even leave bequests to pets in their wills. Vegetarianism has gone mainstream as people have become concerned about the conditions on factory farms, and many scientists say farm animals have feelings. Fifteen years ago, only 10 of the country's law schools offered animal-law courses; today about 130 do. At the same time, however, billions of animals are slaughtered for food each year in our meat-eating society, and live-animal research is a major tool of biomedicine. The food industry, researchers and others who depend on using and killing animals are fighting back against what they call overblown concerns about animal rights. Last November, for example, Ohio voters approved an amendment to the state's constitution barring the legislature from approving any animal-protection laws that would apply to farms.
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