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The purpose of this study is to record the challenges faced by women in the United States military, as they themselves perceive them. Qualitative interview data is used to determine whether such challenges differ from those that male service members face, and what might cause any differentiation.
Isabel Sawhill and Katherine Guyot explain the important role women play in middle class households and the challenges they face, including family “time squeeze.”
- A Convenient Amnesia
- A ‘Very Good-Looking Corporal in Our Regiment’
- The Playbook of Patriarchy
- Ukraine Today
The amnesia about women in combat is a convenient, if not deliberate, forgetting. When Western governments were forced by the 1970s feminist movement to consider the question of whether women should be allowed to fight, they often pointed to the all-male battlefields of the past, even if this history was inaccurate. Decision-makers refused to see a...
One of the most common, and intriguing, ways for women to enter combat was in male disguise. Women who dressed as men to become soldiers are known to have fought in the armies and navies of Russia, England, the Netherlands, France, various German states, and both sides of the American Civil War. Around 119 cross-dressing women are documented as hav...
Suppressing the memory of women’s combat wasn’t limited to the period after the American Civil War. The many examples of female combat during the 20th century included 800,000 to a million women who fought for the Red Army during World War II. Yet officialdom chose to believe that women may have fought when their countries were desperate, as the So...
Today, we are sitting at the crest of a major change, whereby generations of women will move through the military with no ceiling on their progression and no rules telling them what they cannot do. The consequences of this change are already visible in places like Ukraine. The first Russian invasion in 2014 caused Ukraine to reassess its use of wom...
- Sarah Percy
Jan 1, 2006 · In which ways do women enter and remain in the military professional career? A first answer to this question is very sharp: women enter in the armed forces on a voluntary basis.
- Marina Nuciari
May 25, 2015 · According to Army data, female soldiers are more likely than male soldiers to report depressive symptoms, and women are 10 times more likely than their male counterparts to have reported...
- Talya Minsberg
women’s full integration and impedes the implementa-tion of the WPS agenda and IHL compliance. We begin with an overview of women’s roles in the US military, showing women’s long history of involve-ment, recent trends of women’s participation, and their roles in combat operations to explore women’s
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Apr 1, 2016 · The purpose of the chapter is to give the reader a brief overview of the women who serve in the military and the challenges they face to better understand their needs when providing psychological services.
