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On her very first day as a Cadet in the United States Army, Roxanne Petraeus remembers being told by her sergeant that as a woman, she should try her best not to do anything else to stand out — that women don’t meet the military standard and that really, they shouldn’t even be in the armed forces.
“Then he went right back to logistics,” Petraeus recalls. “And it was bizarre, but I didn’t think anything else of it.”
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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