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In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.

Women can build stability. We can make peace.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.