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  • Women at war face sexual violence

    04/17/2009 7:27:31 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 26 replies · 1,632+ views
    bbc ^ | Friday, 17 April 2009
    More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War II. Over 206,000 have served in the Middle East since March 2003, most of them in Iraq. Some 600 have been wounded, and 104 have died. Yet, even as their numbers increase, women soldiers are painfully alone. In Iraq, women still only make up one in 10 troops, and because they are not evenly distributed, they often serve in a platoon with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the military's traditional and deep-seated hostility towards women, can cause problems...