women's rights

On International Women’s Day, reflecting on the long road ahead to equality—and how far we’ve come.

The institutions of the U.S. national security community have recognized, but just begun to remedy, a gap in how they interact with conflict environments: the failure to understand how gender and warfare intertwine. The 2017 Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Act provides a clarion call for operationalizing a gender perspective at each command level and in nearly all activities in the environment.

The issue of the reach of the state needs to be put into a wider focus by including women and gender issues as part of the narrative.