The following is a guest blog post by Tanya L. Roth, author of Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980. The 1948 Women’s Armed Services Integration Act created permanent military positions for women with the promise of equal pay. Her Cold War follows the experiences of women in the military from the passage of the Act to the early 1980s. This summer, Dick’s Sporting Goods began running its new “There She Is” ad campaign, including both 1-minute and 30-second commercial spots that appeared during the Tokyo Olympics. The spots feature a racially diverse group of women athletes...