Women in Service Review: Deciphering the Studies Behind Integrating Women

Abstract

This paper serves as a note of concern regarding how the services research plans for integrating women into previously closed Military Occupational Specialties (MOSs) and units, as well as public statements about those plans, appear from an external standpoint the only perspective available to most service members and the public. From the perspective of someone outside the execution of the services research plans, the Department of Defense (DoD) has not formally held the armed services to any defined scientific standards with respect to their plans for research into female integration. Therefore, even if the services are privately conducting rigorously-designed scientific studies, the services public promise of conducting highly detailed studies, some of which are not clearly scoped, in a short timeframe coupled with a lack of transparency about the process and results will leave the conclusions open to question.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 15, 2014
Accession Number
AD1061988

Entities

People

  • Wendy Chambers

Organizations

  • Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contraception
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Health
  • Infection
  • Lessons Learned
  • Marine Corps
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Noncommissioned Officers
  • Personnel Management
  • Sexual Assault
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design