{"id":52886,"date":"2012-12-14T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52886"},"modified":"2012-12-05T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T02:38:08","slug":"women-opportunity-and-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/12\/14\/women-opportunity-and-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Opportunity, and the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pew Research Center reports<\/a> that, as of 2010, women make up about 15% of enlisted soldiers and commissioned officers:<\/p>\n

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Not all types of women are entering the military at the same rate. \u00a0Nearly a third of women in the military are Black, about twice their proportion in the general population. \u00a0In contrast, about half are white, about 2\/3rds their proportion among civilian women.<\/p>\n

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A larger proportion of women, compared to men, said that they joined the military because it was difficult to find a good civilian job:<\/p>\n

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They were just as likely as men, however, to report other more common reasons for joining:<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, women reported high levels of strain re-entering the civilian population and the majority believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are not worth fighting:<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, a large majority felt that entering the military was good for their personal growth and career opportunities:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pew Research Center reports that, as of 2010, women make up about 15% of enlisted soldiers and commissioned officers: Not all types of women are entering the military at the same rate. \u00a0Nearly a third of women in the military are Black, about twice their proportion in the general population. \u00a0In contrast, about half are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329,253,272,85,285,1759,1760,1754,1761,1757,309,76],"class_list":["post-52886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emotion","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-politics","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-multiracial","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-warmilitary","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52895,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52886\/revisions\/52895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}