In Davos or in Combat, Give Women What They Earn

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Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Get them up front, yesterday. Thatwill be the policy of the U.S. Defense Department in comingmonths after Secretary Leon Panetta reversed a ban on women incombat.

It’s also the position of those impatient with the pace atwhich women have been gaining top positions in the corporatefield or government. At the World Economic Forum’s annualmeeting in Davos, Switzerland, a big theme was that theappearance by women there has never exceeded 20 percent.