Girl In A Military

A notable tendency of science fiction since the 1940s is to place women in domineering military roles. These are often command positions, in some cases for the express purpose of having a woman in command (as was the case for Captain Kathryn Janeway, where the ship having a female captain was used as a selling point). In some cases, this is accompanied by a complete desegregation of genders, such as in Starship Troopers, where no one showed any compunctions about undressing, showering, etc. in front of the other gender.
In numerous games, such as Starcraft, women appear as fierce warriors.
A television movie about Margarethe Cammermeyer called Serving in Silence, was made in 1995, with Glenn Close starring as Cammermeyer. Cammermeyer, a retired colonel in the Washington National Guard, disclosed in 1989 that she was a lesbian. The movie's content was largely taken from Cammermeyer's autobiography of the same name.