Women’s Equality Day is this month, and JoAnn Ortloff has good reason to celebrate. Not only did the longtime Vista resident retire from a 33-year Navy career as the highest ranked female enlistee in ...

Vivian Lord, now 7, wrote a letter to toymakers with a request for women toys. A 7-year-old Arkansas girl who pleaded with a toymaker to start making a female version of the iconic Green Army Men ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Back in August, we first introduced you to a little girl with a really big idea. While playing with her toy army soldiers, 6-year-old Vivian Lord noticed none of them looked like ...

BMC Toys started taking pre-orders for the soldiers earlier this week, and they are expected to ship in October. The Army women will have 15 different poses. BMC Toys The toy company behind the ...

Gender equality has reached the world of toy soldiers. BMC Toys Inc. of Scranton, Pa., will have plastic toys of "green army women" — not men — available in time for the 2020 holiday season. BMC ...

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For the first time, little green plastic army women will be stationed near their male counterparts on toy store shelves. Plastic Army Women will become available for purchase in time for the holiday ...

This summer, a young girl from Arkansas wrote a Northeastern Pennsylvania toy company out of frustration. "My name is Vivian. I am six years old. Why do you not make girl army men?" wrote Vivian Lord ...

A Pennsylvania toy company debuted its newest product at a trade show on Sunday: female toy soldiers inspired by a letter sent by a 6-year-old girl. Vivian Lord, a first-grade student in Arkansas, ...