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Women's role in the workforce with a concentration on women in the military.

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These are some of the resources that I am using in my upcoming edit to this page. 1. Drohan, E., (2013). CJTF Paladin offers training for female engagement team members. The Official Homepage of the United States Army. Five female U.S Army soldiers are the first to partake in a new training course. The course was designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. All five soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Brigrade, 1st Calvalry Division at Bagram Airfield. The training course lasted for three days and included training in unexploded ordnance awareness, biometrics, forensics, evidence collection, tactical questioning, vehicle and personnel searches, instructions on how homemade explosive devices are made and how to recognize if a device is homemade. Originally the female soldiers were just asked to participate in a basic visual recognition-training course, but later it was decided that the training would be more beneficial to the Female Engagement Team members. The reasoning behind this change was because the members of the Female Engagement Team would be interacting with Afghan women as part of their duties and would be the responding team to analyze any suspicious evidence.

2. Fishel, J. (2013). Military leaders lift ban on women in combat roles. Politics. The ban has finally been lifted on women serving in combat positions. This decision overturned the banned that was placed on women since 1994. Women in the military make up about 15 percent of the force. They have demonstrated their worth in the military and are finally being able to hold the same positions as their male counterparts. This change will open up hundreds of thousands front-line positions for women, some positions possibly even leading to elite commando jobs for women. In recent years, women have taken on roles such as medics, military police, but these roles were never formally assigned until now.

3. Ivarsson, S., Estrada, A.X., Berggren, A.W. (2005). Understanding Men's Attitudes Toward Women in the Swedish Armed Forces. Military Psychology. 12(4), 269-282. 	The purpose of this article was to examine the attitudes towards women in the military. The sample consisted of 1,320 male officers from the Swedish Armed Forces. It was expected that rank, years of military service, age, education, and sexist beliefs would correlated with the men’s attitudes towards the women in the military. The results showed that men’s attitudes towards women appeared to be positive. But it was a surprise that the results did not show a more positive result than has been discovered as the Swedish society is normally characterized as more egalitarian with respect to women. The positive studies correlated with the respondent’s age, education, rank, years in the service, sexism

4. Lawrence, C., Starr, B. (2013) Military to open comebat jobs to women. Security clearance: CNN. The U.S military is ending the policy of banning women from certain positions in the army. This will end the policy of “no women in units that are tasked with direct combat”. Jobs opportunities will not be available all at once, but with each branch examining the new lift on the ban, jobs will be available as they see fit. Examinations of physical standards and gender-neutral accommodations within combat units will be done every 90 days to report progress. The goal is 2016 for all assessments to be complete and have women fully integrated into all roles in the army. Senator McCain supports the lift on the ban yet he is quoted saying that the move should not change the military. He states that it is critical that the U.S army maintains the same high standards to continue to be the most admired and feared force in the world. Though this lift on the ban will officially allow women to take on these combat role, it will not be the first since women have seen combat. Women have been taking on these roles for quite sometime, it just was never officially recognized.

5. Matthews, M.D., Edner, Morten, G., Laurence, J.H., Rohall, D.E. (2009). Role of group affiliation and gender attitudes toward women in the military. Military Psychology. 21(2), 241-251. doi: 10.1080/08995600902768750 This study serves to examine the attitudes of West Point cadets, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets, and non-military-affiliated students from civilian colleges toward a variety of roles that women may serve in the military. Participants were asked whether they believed a women ‘should’ or ‘should not’ serve various military jobs, such as, jet fighter pilot, truck mechanic, nurse in a combat zone, typist in the Pentagon, commander of a military installation, hand- to-hand combat soldier, jet transport pilot, air defense gunner, and crew member on a combat ship. The results showed that military cadets were less approving of women being assigned to certain military jobs than non-military students. It was also shown that women were more approving than the male counterparts.

6. Sasson, Levy, O. (2011) Research on Gender and the Military in Israel: From a Gendered Organization to Inequality Regimes. Israel Studies Review. 26 (2), 73-98. doi:10.3167/isr.2011.260205 The purpose of this article was to review the research on gender and the military in Israel since the 1970s. It was argued that the research had moved from a binary gendered concept to intersectionality analysis, as well as an emphasis on women as agents of change and resistant. It concluded that even when a change in gender relation occurs, the military world is will only affect a small minority of women soldiers.

7. Young, L.M., Nauta, M.M. (2013) Sexism as a Predictor of Attitudes Toward Women in the Military and in Combat. Military Psychology (American Psychological Association). 25 (2), 166-171. doi:10.1037/h0094958 This article examined four forms of sexist beliefs as predictors of attitudes towards women in the military as well as combat. It was hypothesized that the differences in attitudes toward women in the military and in combat held by military-affiliated and civilian students would be attributable to differences in levels of sexism. 316 students were surveyed via an online survey. The students ranged from the ages of 18-23+. It was revealed that military affiliated college students were more negative towards women in combat than civilian students. But the groups did not differ on attitudes towards women in the military.

8. (2013). Women in the military. Norfolk Daily News This article outlines the important dates in which females were incorporated into the U.S military services. It was not until 1948 that a law was finally passed that permanently made women a permanent part of the military services. In 1976, the first group of women is admitted into a U.S military academy. In 1994 a policy prohibits women from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. Almost twenty years later, in 2013, an order was passed that allowed women the same opportunities as men in the combat zone. It is rumored that women may begin Army Ranger training by mid-2015.

9. (2013). Sisters in Arms: Breaking down barriers and rising to the challenge. The Official Homepage of the United States Army. According to statistics only 15.6 percent of its 1.1 million soldiers are female. Women serve in 95 percent of all army occupations which makes up 15.6 percent of active army. Women only recently were able to take on combat roles in the army. In light of recent job opportunities opening up to females, a new movement has been created. The women of the army call it “Sisters in Arms”. This group was developed in hopes of helping the many female soldiers find their individual voice in the army. The program has spread throughout the Army worldwide.

10. (2013). Reasons why women should not join the military. Business and employment. This articles stands to provide the many reasons why women should not be able to join the military. Physical fitness was among the top reasons why a woman would not be adequate enough to join the military. Health and physiology is another reason that was given. Women are obviously different from men, and this includes the way a women’s body is built and functions. A woman would require more hygienic conditions than their male counterparts. Hormones are another factor that could possibly influence a way a woman does her job. Lastly, sex and sexual harassment is another factor that stands in the way. If you put two sexes in the same area, it ups the possibility of sexual harassment occurring. Sexual relations also impact morale and relations between soldiers.

Women have been involved in the military since 1775. But their roles were more involved in the fields of nursing, laundering and mending clothing, and cooking for the troops. In 1917 when Loretta Walsh became the first women to enlist. But it was not until 1948 that a law was finally passed that permanently made women a permanent part of the military services. In 1976, the first group of women is admitted into a U.S military academy. According to statistics only 15.6 percent of its 1.1 million soldiers are female. Women serve in 95 percent of all army occupations, which makes up 15.6 percent of active army. In a one year span, Some 40,000 American military women are deployed during the Gulf War operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. But not a single woman was able to take on any form of combat. In 1994 a policy prohibits women from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. A study conducted by (Matthews et al. 2009) to examine the attitudes of West Point cadets, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets, and non-military-affiliated students from civilian colleges toward a variety of roles that women may serve in the military. The results showed that military cadets were less approving of women being assigned to certain military jobs than non-military students. New opportunities are starting to open up for female soldiers. Almost twenty years later, in 2013, an order was passed that allowed women the same opportunities as men in the combat zone. Female U.S Army soldiers are being asked to partake in a new training course. The training course was designed by Combined Joint Task Force Paladin specifically for Female Engagement Team members. The training will help female soldiers in training such as training in unexploded ordnance awareness, biometrics, forensics, evidence collection, tactical questioning, vehicle and personnel searches, instructions on how homemade explosive devices are made and how to recognize if a device is homemade. It is rumored that women may begin Army Ranger training by mid-2015. This change will open up hundreds of thousands front-line positions for women, some positions possibly even leading to elite commando jobs for women. This will end the policy of “no women in units that are tasked with direct combat”. Jobs opportunities will not be available all at once, but with each branch examining the new lift on the ban, jobs will be available as they see fit. The goal is 2016 for all assessments to be complete and have women fully integrated into all roles in the army. In light of recent job opportunities opening up to females, a new movement has been created. The women of the army call it “Sisters in Arms”. This group was developed in hopes of helping the many female soldiers find their individual voice in the army. The program has spread throughout the Army worldwide.