Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously discussed  blocking women from military service, though has since backed off on those efforts.

On Today's Show:
Katherine Sharp Landdeck, professor of history and director of Pioneers Oral History Project at Texas Woman's University and the author of The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II (Crown, 2020), talks about American women in the military over the last century.