'Nuff said

(Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)

'How come you've got so many women?'

-- Unnamed Russian generals this past spring, quoted in a Washington Post article entitled In nuclear negotiations, more women at the table for U.S. Prompting the reaction, according to the Post's by Mary Beth Sheridan, was the "array of American women" at a disarmament negotiating table: chief negotiator Rose Gottemoeller (right), Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation; Gottemoeller's Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Marcie Berman Ries; and 2 scientists. Several other women are cited as shapers of U.S. policy, including: Ellen O. Tauscher, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security; Michèle A. Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and, of course, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. On concluding the list, however, Sheridan discussed this caveat:

Despite their advances, American women are still nowhere near equality in terms of their share of senior national security jobs.

On November 15, ...

... 1941, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler issued a decree by which members of the security forces who engaged in homosexual conduct were subject to execution or imprisonment. The decree was extended to all males within months, part of a program of persecution, by death and consignment to concentration camps, during the Nazi regime.
... 1999, France enacted the law creating the Pacte civil de solidarité, or PACS, which permits civil unions between couples, of opposite sex and same sex alike.
... 1951, U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Cal.) was born in Newark, New Jersey.