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Women in the military have a history that extends over 400 years into the past, throughout a large number of cultures and nations. Women have played , from ancient warrior women, to the women currently serving in conflicts, even though the vast majority of all combatants have been men in every culture.

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  • Women in the military have a history that extends over 400 years into the past, throughout a large number of cultures and nations. Women have played , from ancient warrior women, to the women currently serving in conflicts, even though the vast majority of all combatants have been men in every culture.
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  • Women in the military have a history that extends over 400 years into the past, throughout a large number of cultures and nations. Women have played , from ancient warrior women, to the women currently serving in conflicts, even though the vast majority of all combatants have been men in every culture. Even though women serving in the military has often been controversial, relatively few women in history have fought alongside men. In the American Civil War, there were a few women who cross-dressed as men in order to fight. Fighting on the battle front as men was not the only way women involved themselves in war. Some women braved the battlefront as nurses and aides. Despite various, though limited, roles in the armies of past societies, the role of women in the military, particularly in combat, is controversial and it is only recently that women have begun to be given a more prominent role in contemporary armed forces. As increasing numbers of countries begin to expand the role of women in their militaries, the debate continues. From the beginning of the 1970s, most Western armies began to admit women to serve active duty. Only some of them permit women to fill active combat roles, these are: New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Germany, Norway, Israel, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan. In 2011 and 2012, the U.S. Defense Department began looking at loosening its near-universal ban on women serving in direct positions of combat, including ground combat, as opposed to other prominent but non-combat positions (for example, two women second lieutenants were allowed to try, but did not successfully complete, the grueling U.S. Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course). In 2013, the United States Armed Forces overturned a 1994 rule banning women from serving in certain combat positions, potentially clearing the way for the presence of women in front-line units and elite commando teams.
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