“It’s a thrilling day for women serving in the military — and for women across the country,” Nancy Duff Campbell exuded this morning. Duff Campbell, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, was cited in today’s New York Times article, “Pentagon Will Open All Combat Roles to Women.” As of 3 December, 2015, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter announced all U.S. military combat positions will be open to women.

Not unlike the strides women are making in entrepreneurship globally, we celebrate with American women the burgeoning career opportunities opening up to them. Click here to read The New York Times article; also, find out why and how women are breaking down barriers in all areas of business by following our lauded WOMENtrepreneurs campaign.

All of our WOMENtrepreneurs blog posts can be read here; check out all our pictures, quotations and videos about women entrepreneurs on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for the hashtag “#WOMENtrepreneurs” and clicking on posts authored by EO.