By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has disbanded a committee that provided recommendations for women serving in the military, including on their well-being and treatment, alleging on Tuesday it had pursued a “divisive feminist agenda.”

The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services was created in 1951 and provided advice on “recruitment, retention, employment, integration, well-being, and treatment of women” in the military, according to the committee’s website.

On Tuesday, a Pentagon spokesperson said Hegseth had decided to terminate the committee because it is “focused on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts combat readiness, while Secretary Hegseth has focused on advancing uniform, sex-neutral standards across

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