A midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy on Wednesday stood up amid a sea of white dress uniforms and asked Navy Secretary Ray Mabus why the service is trying to make women look like men. The question ...

The Navy is rolling out a five-year program aimed at “improving the design, form, fit, and function” of uniforms for women in the fleet, according to the service. The program, known as the Size ...

Lt. Heidi Boettger models a prototype for the female officer combination cover, redesigned to more closely resemble the male version. This prototype includes several modifications from the standard ...

More than 200 female midshipmen, chiefs and officers will don the new service dress whites in the first of a series of wear tests slated to last through the summer. The uniform prototypes have the ...

Just as the Department of the Navy is trying to increase recruitment and retention of women to the Navy and Marine Corps, its leadership is taking deliberate steps to ensure that women become ...

It's official — the visibly gender-neutral Navy has arrived. Service officials today released a sweeping Navy administrative message to announce the fleet introduction of new uniform items, lay out a ...

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has spent years ordering the Navy and Marine Corps to jettison female specific uniform styles as a way to ensure women don't feel apart from their male peers. "I think wearing ...

There’s a “pink tax” on military uniforms — that is, women are charged more for the same item as men. It’s yet another invisible form of gender inequality. This has largely been accepted as a routine ...

The Navy is continuing its yearslong quest for a better-fitting uniform for female sailors with a fit-test survey in Norfolk, Virginia, this month. The goal is to get enough measurements to make sizes ...

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — A proposal approved by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus will bring the dress blues worn by some enlisted women a lot closer to those worn by men. The plans announced by Mabus are to ...

Navy women were asked what they like — and don't like – about their uniforms, and their answers are driving a number of key changes. Respondents to the 2013 Women's Uniform Survey say they aren't ...

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