"I'm not here for policy change. I’m here to document history.” Chief Official White House Photographer Shealah Craighead is indeed documenting one of the most untraditional, controversial administrations in presidential history. And while you might expect politics to color everything that goes on in the White House, it was never about politics for Craighead. It still isn’t."
According to a study released in May, women report feelings of and are diagnosed with depression at far higher rates than men, starting at an age far younger than previously thought. Dr. Rachel Salk, along with researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that adolescent women receive depression diagnoses about three times as often as young men do. This gap narrows in the 20s and 30s, but women are labeled “clinically depressed” at nearly twice the rate of their male counterparts.
More than 2.2 million veterans are women and more than 700,000 women have served in uniform since our nation went to war after September 11, 2001, but sadly women veterans often feel neglected. In a nation with a long history of promising to take care of those who risk their lives for our way of life, this is unconscionable. This Veterans Day, we need to commit to making sure female veterans finally feel seen, are valued, and get the care we’ve been promised.