Women

Female Veterans enjoy thriving careers serving Veterans at VA. In this post, hear from four women who are doing just that.

A VA study found that some Women Veterans had developed unhealthy eating habits such as binging, eating quickly, stress eating and extreme dieting. Often, those habits carried over into civilian life.

More than 100 women Veterans received information and services about benefits at Oklahoma's First Annual Women Veterans Benefits and Resource Fair held recently in Del City, Oklahoma.

Over the last five years, women have accounted for 30 percent of the increase in Veterans that seek out the VA for medical care. Meet some of the women currently leading VA and making VA care and benefits work for women Veterans. This article originally appeared on Military Times at https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2019/05/01/meet-the-women-helping-va-work-for-women-veterans/ on May 1, 2019. 

VA will host an industry day March 28 in Springfield, Virginia, aimed at attracting women-owned small businesses to learn more about initiating and conducting business with VA.

Women Veterans attend Healing in Nature Retreat which promotes whole health and wellness to help women Veterans explore personal wellness goals. “My best six days since coming home.”

After winning gold last year for her rendition of “Can’t [...]

“I wouldn’t be here without VA. They changed my life,” said Navy Veteran Joe Ann McBride, who gets her care at the Carl Vincent VA Medical Center in Dublin, Georgia and is participating this week at the National Veterans Golden Age Games.

Five years ago, Jacque Gresham knew nothing about the National [...]

When Marine Corps Veteran Doris Denton first heard about the [...]

This year we commemorated the life of the oldest female [...]

According to the National Cancer Institute, 12.4% of women born [...]