Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will shutter the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS), accusing the 74-year-old panel of “advancing a divisive feminist agenda,” the Pentagon announced Tuesday.

Hegseth “has decided to terminate” DACOWITS, as he believes the committee “is focused on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts combat readiness, while [he] has focused on advancing uniform, sex-neutral standards across the Department,” Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a post on social platform X.

The move comes after Hegseth in March

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