Reflective Essay: The Role Of Women In The Army

All men are created equal; this includes women as well. Over a decade of years, women certainly have come a long way to gain the same kind of equal equality as men, such as being able to vote and being able to join the armed forces and fight alongside men. As growing up I was always told that playing dolls is a girl’s toy and playing a car is a boy’s toy. In my cultural, I was taught that girl couldn’t work in a male job, and I was taught to do housework while the men did nothing around the house. In my house/culture, the men are the provider while the women in my opinion are the servant in which caters to every male in the household. If people were to think about combat in the army many just picture a male behind the military ACU (advanced
The week in which they came to my school I decided to go up to them and ask for information about the army. My friends would never a picture me as wanting to join the army they would see me as a girly girl, a girl in which doesn’t like getting down and dirty. The moment when I decided to tell them that I wanted to join the army my friends started judging me telling me that I’m going to look like a male. Some of them would say that the only reason why I want to join the army is to date or marry an army solider. When they came to that assumption I was taken back that my own friends doesn’t see me as a female wanting to join the army just to gain the experience. I got pressure from them, reason why I should stop pursuing the army they told me that I would get kill and that I shouldn’t do it. They would also tell me the horror story about how female in the military would get sexual harass while serving, and pretty much trying to convince me to get out by every way necessary. With all their assumption it wasn’t enough to make me back out of joining, so I went up to the recruiter and got information and went home to tell my