Lt. Col. Lourdes Guevarra, chief of the Office of Army Gender and Development, honored all the women in the Army whom she said “polevaulted the impetus of the multifaceted roles of women in development and nation-building” especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We have been pressed with our emotional and mental health during the time of pandemic. But the limitations at hand never made our potentials limited. As a matter of fact, some women led the froontline against the COVId-19 and that brought a new definition of women climbing up the ladder towards a top-level participation in the military management system,” she said.