What Do We Do With Our Freedom?

What Do We Do with Our Freedom? By Erin Solaro Delivered at Winthrop University for the John C. West Forum 2 March 2010   Thank you for having me and thank you for coming here to listen to me speak.  My name is Erin Solaro, author of Women in the Line of Fire:  What You [...]

Full participation for ‘Sisters-in-Arms’ (WaPo)

Full participation for our ‘sisters-in-arms’ By Donna McAleer and Erin Solaro Saturday, December 12, 2009 By this time next year, U.S. troops will have been in Afghanistan longer than the Soviets were. The United States has been engaged in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq longer than in any previous war. Not factoring in the increase [...]

Women and the US Draft

A correspondent, whose name I have withheld pending permission to use it, has asked me to consider whether or not women’s exemption from registration for Selective Service contributes to the glass ceiling in this country, and whether or not I think women should have to register for Selective Service. In good, ambiguous fashion, my answer [...]

Women’s Interests and the Military Draft

I’m taking a break from writing a novel to actually more or less blog, and write about what it means to be a woman-or a man-and a citizen today.  As a start, I’m linking to this piece about the Israeli Defense Forces targeting female draft dodgers.  Israel, which has slowly begun to reopen the combat arms [...]