Reply #5: Yes. There is, for example, no 'one' or small group of source of information for women -

[Captain Hilts]

whereas there are a couple of journals most gays read. And there are a couple of news sources that blacks or Jews read, but nothing comparable for women that crosses just enough demographic boundaries that a wide selection of women read it. Even many Jews that do not read 'The Forward' are aware of it and see it, for example. Black Americans had, for many years, a few: Ebony, Jet, etc. along with local newspapers for the black community such as Baltimore' Afro-American.

'Women's' magazines seem to cover - exclusively - one of two groups: 'homemakers' OR 'teenyboppers/fashionistas'.

Women, also, do not have the collective experience that the military was for generations of men. Nor do they have the economic/health insurance safety net that service provided.