Feminism, militarism, and attitudes toward the role of women in the military

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa S. Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Women In The Military ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Military

The Combat Exclusion and the Role of Women in the Military

Hypatia ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Wagner Decew
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

I first discuss reasons for feminists to attend to the role of women in the military, despite past emphasis on antimilitarism. I then focus on the exclusion of women from combat duty, reviewing its sanction by the U.S. Supreme Court and the history of its adoption. I present arguments favoring the exclusion, defending strong replies to each, and demonstrate that reasoning from related cases and feminist analyses of equality explain why exclusion remains entrenched.

Australian School Student Aspirations for Military Careers

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gore ◽  
Leanne Fray ◽  
Claire Wallington ◽  
Kathryn Holmes ◽  
Max Smith
Keyword(s):  
Student Interest ◽  
Australian School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Student Aspirations ◽  
Career Options ◽  
The Military

Modern military organizations are making a concerted effort to recruit a more diverse range of people, with the role of women in the military at the forefront of debate. In Australia, in response to the changing role of the military and with the aim of positioning the military as an “employer of choice” for women, females are targeted as early as high school. Using data from a study of 6,492 Australian school students in Years 3–12, we examine student aspirations for military careers. Student aspirations were influenced by traditional perceptions of the military as a primarily masculine enterprise. Key reasons for student interest included dominant notions of masculinity, familial military experience, career options, and enlistment benefits. We argue that current views of the military among school children signal the need to shift such perceptions to appeal to a wider range of people and attract a more diverse workforce.

scholarly journals WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY ON THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADOPTION OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325

2016 ◽  
pp. 11-13
Keyword(s):  
Security Council ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
General Staff ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Military

On 31 October 2000, the United Nations (UN) Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. This resolution was followed by others (1820, 1888, 1889, 1960, 2106, 2122 and 2422), which stress the disproportionate impact of wars and conflicts on women and children, and highlight the fact that, historically speaking, women have always been on the margins of peace processes and stabilisation efforts. They underline the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, in peace negotiations, peace building and humanitarian and post-conflict activities. Resolution 1325 calls upon member states to integrate gender perspective into UN plans and programmes, but mainly to protect women and girls in armed conflicts. The Resolution was also adopted by the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovenian Armed Forces has included it into pre-deployment training of Slovenian contingents as required reading. After 1991, when Slovenia became independent, two journals on women in the military have been published. The first one was published in 1995, five years prior to the UN Resolution. It was edited by Zorica Bukinac and published by the Ministry of Defence under the title of Ženske v oboroženih silah (Women in the military). The second journal was produced in 2002. It was edited by Ljubica Jelušič and Mojca Pešec and published by a joint effort of the Defence Research Centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, the Ministry of Defence and the SAF General Staff. The former journal provides the first account of the experiences of female SAF members, and the views of Slovenian and foreign authors on the role of women in the military. The latter uses traditions, culture and gender-role patterns to present the limiting factors of the integration of women in the military, and provides an analysis of the share of women and the duties they perform in the SAF. Greater integration of women in the military still raises much attention and a number of questions. The experiences vary importantly across countries. A number of them are positive, but there are also the negative ones. 2015 marked 15 years since the adoption of Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, 20 years since the publishing of the first journal, and 13 years since the publishing of the other. With this thematic issue, the Editorial Board wished to learn about the novelties regarding the Resolution in Slovenia and abroad, and publish them. We invited Lieutenant Colonel Suzana Tkavc, PhD, Gender Advisor at SAF General Staff, appointed coordinator of the MoD for Gender Equality and national representative in the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives to participate. The issue in front of us is the result of our joint efforts. Pablo Castillo Díaz, who works in the United Nations Organisation, wrote the article Military women in peacekeeping missions and the politics of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. He shares with us his expert view and experiences regarding the Resolution on Women, Peace and Security. By focusing on international operations and missions, he draws attention to the advantages and disadvantages of the Resolution. Garry McKeon wrote an article titled Better citizens – humanitarian and gender training, EUTM Somalia. The author has been member of the Irish Defence Forces for over 30 years and has also been deployed in a mission in Somalia. His experiences regarding training in the implementation of Resolution 1325 are very interesting, since they concern a cultural setting, which is substantially different from ours. In her article Some of the best practices in gender perspective and the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the 25 years of Slovenian armed forces, Suzana Tkavc provides an insight into gender perspective in the 25 years of Slovenia’s independence with a special emphasis on the armed forces and their activities in international operations and missions. How well did Slovenia do compared to female and male representatives of other armed forces? Jovanka Šaranović, Brankica Potkonjak-Lukić and Tatjana Višacki are the authors of the article Achievements and perspectives of the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces. Serbia invested important effort into the implementation of Resolution 1325, since this subject matter is included in the national action plan, which includes a number of different state authorities and other non-governmental institutions. In their article, the authors determine how successful they were in this mission. In the article titled An analysis and critique of the UNSCR 1325 – what are recommendations for future opportunities? Jane Derbyshire acquaints us with the perspective and experiences of the New Zealand Defence Force regarding the resolution. Are they very different from the experiences of other countries? The author believes that time has come for changes. Unlike the majority of the authors, who are members of armed forces or are directly related to them, Nadja Furlan Štante wrote her article Women in military system: between violence and vulnerability from a different perspective. She specialises in religion and women’s studies and as such bases her writing on biological, historical, religious and other aspects, also taking into consideration the findings, practice and works of the authors who write about defence and the military. We believe that with this themed issue we have passed on new experiences and added some views to the mosaic of gender perspective, encouraged you to read or maybe even write.

Women Veterans with Poly trauma: Rehabilitation Planning Implications

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet K. Cater ◽  
Lynn C. Koch
Keyword(s):  
Functional Disability ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Women Veterans ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
Psychosocial Impairment ◽  
Rehabilitation Planning ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Military Strength ◽  
The Military

Polytrauma is defined as two or more injuries, one of which is life threatening and results in physical, cognitive, psychological, or psychosocial impairment and functional disability. It is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and with the ever increasing role of women in the military (currently 15% of military strength), a signature injury for women as well as men. This article provides (a) a brief overview of poly trauma, (b) a synopsis of the unique barriers to psychosocial and vocational adjustment encountered by women veterans with poly trauma, (c) an examination of rehabilitation counseling considerations for working with women veterans with poly trauma, and (d) a discussion of potential implications for research.

Introduction to Armed Forces & Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda L. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
South African ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Military

This Armed Forces & Society issue is on women in the contemporary armed forces in the United States and other nations to include the South African National Defense Force and the Australian Defense Force. This issue contains a collection of nine papers, each reviewing a current aspect of women serving in the military since the post–Vietnam War Era. There are also two review essays of Megan Mackenzie’s book, Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth That Women Can’t Fight. An overview of changing laws and the expanding role of women in the military is provided in this introduction, as well as summaries of the nine articles, and comments on the two book reviews mentioned above.

scholarly journals WOMEN IN MILITARY STRATEGY: A REVIEW OF WOMEN EMANCIPATION AND PROTECTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Erlinda Matondang
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Military Strategy ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Military ◽  
Women Rights ◽  
Human Rights Violation

<p>Whether in conflict and war or peacebuilding, women are always considered victims of human rights violation and the vulnerable. In recent decades, there has been efforts to advocate for the protection of women's rights and women empowerment in the name of emancipation. This has allowed women's presence in several key sectors, including politics and military, resulting in a new role for women as resources in military strategy. This has put the policy to protect women during war into question, especially when women have now become a combatant. This paper analyzes this issue through two concepts (women protection and military strategy to understand the military's perception toward women's position and one theory (feminism) to understand women's perception toward their roles in the military during war. Therefore, the object of this observation is the role of women in military strategy with regard to the implementation of women' rights protection and military strategy. In this observation, this paper collects secondary data through literature review. Through this observation, we can have broader understanding of the role of women in military strategy because the primary purpose of this paper is to assess the possibility for changing women protection during war policy to reflect the current condition.</p><strong>Keywords:</strong> emancipation, human rights, military strategy, women protection

Time For a Non-Feminist Reappraisal of the Role of Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 319-322
Author(s):  
Steven M. Krason ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Women And Work ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Wanderer

This was one of SCSS president Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appeared in Crisismagazine.com and The Wanderer. It discusses, in brief, the damage done by feminism. It singles out a few areas: the problems caused by the integration of women into the military, the need for a reassessment of women and work, the need to show a renewed respect for women who are full-time mothers, the role of women in the Church, and the need to make the case insistently to women how they have suffered the most from the sexual revolution and contraceptive use

Role of mentoring for women in the Canadian Armed Forces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linna Tam-Seto
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Sexual Trauma ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Canadian Armed Forces ◽  
The Military

LAY SUMMARY In Canada, mentoring has been used in the armed forces to support women’s careers and personal development, but there is little evidence that the unique experiences of being a woman in the military have been considered in mentoring efforts. The current study aims to find reasons why servicewomen are using mentorship in the Canadian Armed Forces and to identify the gender and cultural factors that may play a role in those mentoring experiences. This article presents some of the findings from 28 interviews that explored the experiences of mentorship for women in the military. For women, career development advice includes learning how to manage personal responsibilities along with career objectives. Women are also looking for support to address issues related to gender and military culture, kinship and visibility, and surviving sexual trauma in the workplace. The current study provides a foundation for ongoing research and forms a basis on which future mentorship work can be built.

Role of Group Affiliation and Gender on Attitudes Toward Women in the Military

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Matthews ◽  
Morten G. Ender ◽  
Janice H. Laurence ◽  
David E. Rohall
Keyword(s):  
Attitudes Toward Women ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Military
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