The Army Personnel Services Detachment (APSD) does not present any form glass ceiling for women. This is primarily due to the nature and make up of the organization. The APSD is a military organization and the highest ranking officer in its composition is a captain. Currently, the US Army is having tremendous success in keeping equitable promotion opportunities in the junior officer ranks. The APSD has no current equal opportunity (EO) issues based on unfair treatment among the sexes, but female Soldiers have dealt with severe gender discrimination over the past 65 years.(Living the Legacy of Women’s Rights, n.d.)…
Throughout the United States, sexism is a defining role in the choices that are made concerning who can and cannot perform a certain task the most efficient and safe. Fighting on the front line, in a Combat Unit, is one of those tasks that certainly takes special skills and integrity that not many people possess. Throughout reading and analyzing Coed Combat Units—A Bad Idea on All Counts, many informative, thought-provoking, and straight forward points were addressed concerning women working along-side of men on the front line in the United States Military. While growing up and still to this day, I have always believed that men should be the only ones fighting for our great country, no because a woman cannot keep up, but because men were basically built to fight in the military.…
Owens opens up his claim about the equity among female and male participants in the military by providing evidence from professors across the nation, who seem against it or supporting the idea in the military. He wants to explain one of the dangers that women face, however, as well as to mention his opinions that a woman’s weakness should not stop her from being part of combat. Thus allowing his paper to be purely on women throughout the paper introducing methods of how women should be treated with potential equivalent to male soldiers. He offers statistics to balance out his assumptions about a concept from his claim to prove what he is trying to explain in his argument.…
The Writer. This source is written by a syndicated columnist who served in the Commission on the Assignment of women in the Armed Forces. The Publication. The publication that the author…
There are many cultural considerations that a medical assistant needs to be aware of when addressing issues related to the female reproductive system. Some of these considerations are: believes and practices of religion, values, and even the attitudes of the people with different cultures. The most important thing that a medical assistant should avoid is offending the patient and make it seem as if they are judging them. Everyone has different beliefs and that is perfectly fine. Medical assistant just need to remember that no patient is the same, for example: some cultures forbid communication about reproductive issues with a particular gender. As an MA, it is their job to make sure the patient is cared for and to just give them the support…
Collins’ appeals to ethics and emotion, answering to cynics’ fear of women’s safety in military combat, and assuring that an equalization of genders is the best thing to do. She references to the stereotypical woman in the military with a quote from Wilma Vaught who retired from active duty in 1985, “I wore my skirts.” This old political correctness seems absurd, looking at women in the military today who wear the same uniforms as men. Collins shows how much has already changed, but suggests that although men and women in the military look the same, there’s still more to it. Collins uses pathos when she brings up a terrible hardship that women in the military have to face, no matter where they stand in combat. “Sexual attacks from fellow members of their own service” are unfortunately common toward military women. Collins argues that putting more women at the top of the military will bring more attention to women’s issues, therefore ending these sickening incidences.…
That leads us to wonder what kind of sexism women would face. “Researchers have distinguished between two forms of sexism: hostile and benevolent. Whereas hostile sexism is more obviously negative, benevolent sexism is often disguised as positive, portraying women as needing and deserving greater care and protection” (Trobaugh). Even though benevolent sexism is more positive, it is still bad because it allows for men to look at women as lesser and weaker. The male soldiers are fearful of “lowered physical standards, increased sexual assault and harassment, reduced readiness, and destruction of the masculine culture of brotherhood” (Trobaugh).…
Some may argue that the societal built environment of abuse of power may be one of the main causes of most disputes within the military. Stark et. al, mentions how within armed groups, sexual violence and rape have been affiliated into norms of machismo and expressed though means of sexual domination of females. Men have been reported to engage in sexual activities such as gang rape to fully display their authority in the branch. This research shows how sexual violence in the armed forces shows an issue of power asymmetry, patriarchy, masculinity, and devaluation of women soldiers (2012). Lamentably, power struggle is mostly noticed between male and female in a military branch. Psychologically, rape is stated to occur as means of a dominant-submissive…
Gender and race have become the dividing line in many aspects of everyday life to include the division of labor, physical space, and power (Burrell, 1980). In the Military, most successful officers are usually described as forceful, decisive and rational. These qualities have been typically associated with the picture of masculinity. On the other hand, unsuccessful officers are usually defined as weak and indecisive. These terms are usually associated with femininity (Burrell,…
Having a woman cadet was seen as a challenge to The Citadel’s firm traditions. One of the cadets said- “she would be destroying a long and proud tradition”(Faludi 82). The Citadel’s administration and cadets simply follow the traditions and reject her. According to their beliefs, strength and bravery is men’s territory. They thought they were teaching men to protect women, because women needed protection from the rest of the world. But in reality they were teaching them to hold power over women, to beat them and overreact if these women didn’t do exactly what they wanted. One of the cadets admits, “the great majority of guys here are very misogynistic…all they talk about is how girls are pigs and sluts” (Faludi 82). This showcases the student’s need for domination, and over-empowering of anything they feel is beneath them. Their egos are also under attack. The President of the Citadel admits if women were enrolled there would be “a different form of intimidation- not wanting to be embarrassed in front of a girl”(Faludi 83). Bringing women in will further these hidden insecurities of the cadets, and it is seen as a threat to the men’s power.…
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…
Robert Wood’s opinion piece ‘Just Joking’ is no excuse for sexist behaviour at work (The Age) is judgmental and critical of sexist behaviour in the workplace. Wood contends in a reasonable tone that it is necessary for employers to banish sexism in order to create equality and good working conditions for females. Wood appeals to his readers, especially female readers, by asserting that a ‘review into the treatment of women in the Australian Defence Force’ as well as ‘the Centre for Ethical Leadership’ are looking for ‘possible solutions’ to gender inequality, which has the potential to encourage readers to see that there is a problem and that this problem is being taken seriously by both the Defence Force and other organisations.…
While there are no restriction on what a woman can be, women in the United States have difficult "phantoms" and mental barricades to overcome on their journey to the workplace such as the illusion that there is rampant sexism in the workplace, the wage-gap between men and women myth, and the belief that they have to care for their children.…
As a leader in the United States Military, you are faced with situations or problems almost daily. Most problems we are confronted with do not take much to assess and act upon. Although there is one problem not only the Military faces but Society in general faces. The problem the Military is attempting to solve or eliminate is Sexual Assault and harassments across the forces.…
The military has a patriarchal structure influenced by values such as formality, rank, leadership, loyalty, camaraderie, and emotional control. Priority is placed on masculine ideals, encouraging notions of dominance, aggression, self-sufficiency, and risk-taking. (Honor 2007) The power differential between men and women in the military, owing to its male-dominated leadership and structure, plays an important role in sexual assault. (Turchik 2010) Hyper-masculine men can feel threatened by competent women and men considered weak or effeminate. Women in the military report feeling scrutinized and watched by men, judged as less competent and victimized by their jealousy and anger. (Katz…