Together or Separate? Newspaper Coverage of Gender-Integrated Training, 1997-2000

Abstract

Women and men have served in the defense of this country since the wars of the 18th century, but the concept of gender-integrated or mixed training is relatively new to the American military forces. The purpose of this study was to examine newspaper coverage of the issue of gender-integrated training in the military. This paper presents a brief background of women in the military Services, evolving training policies including pros and cons of gender-integrated training, roles of the press, recommendations of panels that examined the integrated-training issue, and a review of news coverage. Then the issues and news items are analyzed and summarized, followed by conclusions and suggestions. Finally, a pilot survey was conducted among persons studying to be equal opportunity advisors at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. The students were administered a 15 item questionnaire dealing with issues raised by news media coverage of gender-integrated training. Men and women agreed that gender-integrated training should continue.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA402766

Entities

People

  • Gene Murray

Organizations

  • Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Basic Training
  • Civil War
  • Education
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • National Security
  • Newspapers
  • Personnel Management
  • Societies
  • Sociology
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

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