1) When I was in elementary school, I loved playing sports and I was good at them; during gym class I always wanted boys to pass to me but they never would, having to prove myself to them before they included me in the game.
2) Sage Santangelo, along with 14 other women, all failed the Marine infantry fitness test; she believes not because they should be held to double standards but because women and men were segregated from the beginning and women were not held to as high fitness standards, therefore they did not have enough conditioning or experience.
3)Colonel Dale Eikmeier was once assigned to be in the US embassy in Baghdad with a female helicopter pilot. The Iraqis there were very polite to her but, still, they could not take the female helicopter pilot too seriously because of their culture but eventually they saw how smart and able she was and they saw her as a special addition to the team.
Factoids:
1) In 2010, roughly 19,000 sexual assaults occurred in the military, and less than 14% of these were reported by survivors.
https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-military-discrimination
2) Beginning in 2003, the U.S. Army established all‐female (Lioness) teams specifically to accompany all‐ male Marine combat units into insurgent‐infested areas of Ramadi, Iraq.
http://servicewomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/97-WIC-fact-sheet.pdf
3) Allowing women on submarines is an issue that had been considered and rejected several times since 1993. In February 2010 Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress that the Navy intended to allow women officers on submarines.
https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-military-discrimination
2) Beginning in 2003, the U.S. Army established all‐female (Lioness) teams specifically to accompany all‐ male Marine combat units into insurgent‐infested areas of Ramadi, Iraq.
http://servicewomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/97-WIC-fact-sheet.pdf
3) Allowing women on submarines is an issue that had been considered and rejected several times since 1993. In February 2010 Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress that the Navy intended to allow women officers on submarines.
Questions:
1) How is women leadership viewed as opposed to men?
2) What are arguments against women being allowed in direct combat?
3) Are there many differences in why women join the military opposed to men?
1) How is women leadership viewed as opposed to men?
2) What are arguments against women being allowed in direct combat?
3) Are there many differences in why women join the military opposed to men?
I like your first anecdote because I find it to be relateable and I like that it is personal to you. I like your first factoid because it is extremely upsetting and surprising. I also really like your first question because I have wondered that myself.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in women's leadership, too. Sports and the military interest me less, probably just for selfish reasons, maybe because sports seems less important (mainly for fun) and because I can't really imagine MYSELF wanting to be in the military, so it doesn't seem like such a big deal if women can't be... Of course, these issues ARE important! And our world would be much better if women participated in everything at an equal level.
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