An Army Drill Sargeant School's First Female Commander

      While reading a news article, I read that Command Sergeant Major Theresa King has become the first female Commander at U.S. Army’s Drill Sergeant School in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Now, she is essentially the 'principal' at the school, oversees 78 drill instructors, and is responsible for training all of the drill seargeants at this school.
     While Commander King sets a powerfill example, women represent only 14% of the active-duty soldiers, and only 9.6% of the top three enlisted positions.  What does this say about our society? I'm glad to know that women like Commander King are recieving higher positions, but there is a long way to go before the army has a similar amount of women to men. On the other side of the spectrum, there are many careers that that are just as dominated by women as the army is dominated by men; for example, 91% of all nurses are women.
    Personally, I've never truly considered joining the armed forces. As a woman, I'm not allowed to join front-line, direct-combat units because of Department Defense policies. However, I am allowed to enlist should I choose. As Americans, is the lack of women in the army due to lack of interest, or because enlisting is deemed socially uncacceptable?
  Perhaps as children we aspired to be like princess' instead of GI-Joe, but for our generation I don't think I can make that generalization. As a kid, my favorite 'princess' was really Mulan- who, as you may know, pretended to be a man so she could fight in the chinese army. Additionally, she's just plain awesome, but that's really beside the point- in an age where women are becoming increasingly more equal to men in the work world, why aren't there more Commanders like Commander King?