Honoring women veterans during Women's History Month, recognizing the distinct challenges they face in health care, housing, safety, and reintegration, and commending the National Alliance of Women Veterans, Inc. for its advocacy on behalf of women veterans.

Honoring women veterans during Women’s History Month, recognizing the distinct challenges they face in health care, housing, safety, and reintegration, and commending the National Alliance of Women Veterans, Inc. for its advocacy on behalf of women veterans. WHEREAS, Women’s History Month is a time to recognize the leadership, sacrifice, and civic contribution of women whose service has shaped this nation, including the women veterans of the United States Armed Forces; and WHEREAS, Women veterans often experience needs and barriers that differ in important ways from those of the broader veteran population, including the need for gender-specific and reproductive health care, trauma-informed mental health services, safe and welcoming care environments, better access to benefits information, flexible hours of care, and support responsive to caregiving responsibilities and child care needs; and WHEREAS, The burden of military sexual trauma remains especially severe for women veterans, as about 1 in 3 women veterans disclose to a VA provider that they experienced such abuse, a reality that can continue to affect mental and physical health for many years after service; and WHEREAS, Women veterans also face distinctive risks connected to housing instability and homelessness, with the VA reporting that female veterans are the fastest-growing segment of the veteran population, and 3,329 female veterans were identified as homeless in 2024. Trauma, military sexual assault, intimate part…