General Ann Dunwoody Cracks the ‘Brass Ceiling’
2008 November 15
Via NoQuarter:
Woman reaches US army’s top rank
An American woman has been promoted to four-star general - the first female to reach the US army’s highest rank. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
Ann E Dunwoody said she had never expected to rise so high in the ranks in her 33-year career.
She said no one was more surprised than she and her husband. “Behind every successful woman there’s an astonished man,” she added.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates said: “History will no doubt take note of [Dunwoody's] achievement in breaking through this final ‘brass ceiling’ to pin on this fourth star.”
There are 21 female generals, most of them one-star, in the US army.
Women make up 14% of the army’s active-service strength of more than 500,000 soldiers.
