As women enter ground combat fields in larger numbers, the military services are working harder to make gender-specific accommodations for their gear -- even down to tweaking protective equipment ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Women of different races sometimes wear their hair differently, yet the U.S. military's rules for hairstyles have not always been colorblind or sensitive to cultural ...

(U.S. Army graphic) One Army official who worked on the policy changes told Military.com that one of the prime motivations for updating the hair policy for women was that more flexible hair styles ...

Hairstyles for women in the military have long been a sensitive issue. While approved military hairstyles are ostensibly intended to ensure that female service members can wear their helmets and ...

In a military increasingly dependent on women ... Image A photo provided by the Army shows some of the new hairstyles allowed for women.Credit...United States Army The new regulations are tucked ...

The assumption that individuals wearing these hairstyles cannot ... ensure uniformity in our military, it is seen as discriminatory rules targeting soldiers who are women of color with little ...

Hagel said the military had spent the past three months ... “These changes recognize that traditional hairstyles worn by women of color are often necessary to meet our unique needs, and ...

The current regulations state that women’s hairstyles “may not be eccentric ... And as Peters said at Military.com back in August, Black women “have not always had a voice,” but “the ...

Lock hairstyles, or ropelike strands, are also now allowed. Wider hair buns too. And women can wear ponytails ... purpose in today's society, today's military." The Navy said it had the standards ...

Even before the current controversy, the association had already planned to showcase the hairstyles of African-American women in the military throughout the years at its national convention in ...

Moreover, forcing members of the military to chemically or manually ... Workplace discrimination against black women on the basis of their hairstyles has been legally permitted in many instances.

we've got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits," Carlson said on his show. "Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It's a mockery of the U.S. military." During the segment, Carlson ...