Women and the military

Kennedy‐Pipe, Caroline

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“…There is also the argument, extending this logic, that the very nature of modern warfare, involving asymmetric or virtual engagement and a supposed ‘revolution in military affairs’ 8 as well as the extension of MOOTW, involves a rethink of women's military roles, not on the basis of their (supposed) aptitudes for emotional work, but on the basis of re‐thinking more traditional or conservative notions about women's (non‐ or limited) military participation (Kennedy‐Pipe, 2000). This rethinking of women's traditional roles involves a quite fundamental reconceptualization of the character of military organizations based on a shift from essentialist (biologically determinist) constructions of female difference and moving instead towards a position where gender is understood as culturally constituted.…”

Section: Concluding Observations On Female and Military Specificitymentioning

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Gender and the Limits to Diversity in the Contemporary British Army

Woodward

Winter²

2006

Gender Work & Organization

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This article considers equal opportunities and diversity management policies in the contemporary British Army for what they indicate, not only about policy frameworks for women's military participation, but also for what they tell us about the construction of ideas about gender and difference within that organization. The article sets out contextual information on women in the British Army and describes the research methodology on which this article is based. It looks at the evolution of equal opportunities policies and the more recent shift towards diversity management policies in the Army, focusing on their contributions towards female equity. The article examines the consequences of the shift towards the management of diversity, noting how embracing the ideas of diversity management is ultimately limited by the Army's construction of female difference. It concludes with a discussion of the issues of female and military specificity in relation to the management of diversity.

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Section: Concluding Observations On Female and Military Specificitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and the Limits to Diversity in the Contemporary British Army

Woodward

Winter²

2006

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Conservative opponents tend to argue that masculine privilege is necessary to motivate men to fight and that the presence of women threatens this (inter alia Gat, 2000;Van Creveld, 2000a, 2000bFrost, 2001;Holmes, 2003). Liberal and civic republican feminists have challenged this on the grounds that military service is a (pre)condition to full-citizenship and that women have a right, and even a duty, to enlist (inter alia Stiehm, 1982;Feinman, 1998;Kennedy-Pipe, 2000). Others have problematized women's service on the grounds that it militarizes them (Tiffany, 1981;Klein, 2002), normalizes masculine military culture (Sasson-Levy, 2003) or violates the peaceful nature of women (Ruddick, 1989).…”

Section: Distractions and Disruptions: Women In Armed Forcesmentioning

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Gender and militaries: the importance of military masculinities for the conduct of state sanctioned violence

Basham¹

2016

Handbook on Gender and War

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“…Indeed, the essential attributes of future warriors will almost certainly derive less from physical strength and more from technical abilities. 34 Furthermore, such skeptical thinking neglects the affirmative arguments for capitalizing on gender diversity in the future robotic battlespace.…”

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Women Warriors: Why the Robotics Revolution Changes the Combat Equation

Letendre¹

2015

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This] should not be about women's rights, equal opportunity, career assignments for enhancement purposes for selection to higher rank. It is about, most assuredly is about…combat effectiveness, combat readiness, winning the next conflict….-General Robert H. Barrow (retired) 27 th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps So began the testimony of General Barrow before the Senate Armed Services Committee in June 1991 regarding his opinion on women in combat during which he gave his ultimate conclusion:"women can't do it….and there is no military need to put women into combat." 2 That is about to change. The revolution in robotics and autonomous systems is poised to alter the debate from whether women are able to meet combat standards to how gender diversity in combat will improve the US military's fighting capability. Over the next decade, the US military will reap huge benefits from robotic and autonomous systems that will fundamentally change both the tools used on the battlefield and the approach taken to combat. Not only will robotic technology undermine the standard arguments against women in combat, but full gender integration across all combat roles will maximize American employment of autonomous systems and corresponding combat effectiveness.To understand how robotics will change the equation of women in combat, this article first examines the current law and policy regarding women in combat positions, taking a close look at how the services are approaching the current DoD guidance to establish gender-neutral standards for all occupational specialties. While present policy and direction favors opening all

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Women and the military

Cited by 23 publications

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Gender and the Limits to Diversity in the Contemporary British Army

Gender and the Limits to Diversity in the Contemporary British Army

Gender and militaries: the importance of military masculinities for the conduct of state sanctioned violence

Women Warriors: Why the Robotics Revolution Changes the Combat Equation

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