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SAN FRANCISCO - The United States Army that bars enlisted women from joining combat battalions unless two or more women 鈥渓eaders鈥� are already assigned to those units. The policy impeded active duty servicewomen鈥檚 ability to serve on equal footing after the DoD ordered women鈥檚 full integration into combat roles in December 2015 following a lawsuit by the 老澳门开奖结果. It was the target of a subsequent 老澳门开奖结果 court challenge on behalf of the Service Women鈥檚 Action Network (SWAN).

鈥淭he end of this sexist policy is a long overdue coda to the DoD鈥檚 landmark decision, nearly a decade ago, to open all combat roles to active duty servicewomen,鈥� said Ria Tabacco Mar, Director of the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Rights Project. 鈥淟eaders First was premised on stereotypes about women鈥檚 ability to succeed in formerly all-male units, and it shifted the burden of achieving gender parity from military leaders onto servicewomen themselves.鈥�

Although the Army鈥檚 policy change also formally applies to the Army National Guard, more than half of the states and territories with National Guard combat units continue to maintain Leaders First policies. A version of the policy also remains in place in the United States Marine Corps.

鈥淥ur organization will continue to work with Congress, the Biden Administration, and the states to end the use of Leaders First by the National Guard,鈥� said DeShauna Barber, SWAN鈥檚 Chief Executive Officer. 鈥淲e hope the Army鈥檚 positive step will encourage other branches of the military to follow suit.鈥� Barber added, 鈥淲e also intend to ensure that the Marines鈥� other facially discriminatory policy, sex-segregated boot camp, is lifted by 2028, as mandated by Congress three years ago. Our organization will continue supporting servicewomen and women veterans nationwide.鈥�

In November 2012, SWAN and four servicewomen filed a lawsuit challenging the ban on women in combat positions with the help of the 老澳门开奖结果, the 老澳门开奖结果 of Northern California, and Munger, Tolles & Olsen LLP. In January 2013, shortly before DOD was scheduled to answer the complaint, DoD officially rescinded the combat exclusion policy, a 1994 directive that barred women from being assigned to most ground combat units, totaling roughly 240,000 positions.

In December 2015, DoD announced that all military jobs, units, and schools would officially be open to women 鈥渨ithout exception鈥� 鈥� yet the Marine Corps maintained its policy of sex-segregated boot camp, and both the Army and the Marines imposed the Leaders First policy, both of which treat women joining combat units differently than men solely on the basis of gender.

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