Robin Rogers

About the Author: Robin Rogers, a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara Law School, is a California attorney.

Reports regarding the invasion of Panama brought the increasing importance of women in the military to the public’s attention and forced many Americans to examine for the first time the often unacknowledged and increasingly ambiguous rules confining military women. Much has changed in the twenty-odd years since Congress repealed the two-percent ceiling on the number of women allowed in each branch of the armed services. Women now constitute more than ten percent of the armed services and occupy vital military positions previously closed to them. Significant as these changes are, however, much within the military hierarchy remains the same. Despite the increasing importance of women in our nation’s...