The Air Force already has enough potential recruits waiting for boot camp to meet more than half its 2026 recruiting goal.

U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, an Air Force veteran who represents Chester County, is pushing back on Secretary of Defense Pete ...

The picture is even worse for specific subsets of women. The share of mothers of young children in the labor market fell almost 3 percentage points in the first half of the year. Unemployment for ...

Heather Campbell lost her job working for a food bank over the summer because of federal funding cuts. Her husband serves as ...

U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) ripped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “chilling” message to women in the Armed Forces on Tuesday. “You can’t have it both ways. You can’t have ‘standard’ standards ...

More than 450,000 women have dropped out of the US labor market since January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Outside of the pandemic, it’s one of the steepest declines on record.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s assertion Tuesday that newly proposed military fitness standards may exclude women from certain combat roles has reignited fears about his approach to women in the ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...

The defence secretary said he wanted a return to the "male standard" for combat roles. Women say the standards were never different.

President Donald Trump nominated a nearly retired four-star general and fighter pilot to serve as the Air Force's chief of staff, the service announced Sept. 30. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, whose fighter ...