Women Are Fighting These Wars

I've often briefly pondered what seems like an awful lot of women military dead as the names and pictures scroll down the screen on Jim Lehrer's evening news show on PBS.
It is an awful lot for the "other sex," the one that was supposed to stay out of combat and combat zones.
But I guess these wars have altered the way women are used in combat, likely forever. This NYT story is the first I've seen to focus on it and explain what's happening. I'm sure there have been others and I just didn't see them. Well, maybe not.

Of the two million Americans who have fought in these wars since 2001, more than 220,000 of them, or 11 percent, have been women.