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Or consider getting equipment designed and tested considering female physiques (load carrying and protective devices), vehicles that consider female physiology (civilian side, women in a vehicle accident are about 47% more likely to be injured and 17% more likely to be killed in an accident), career paths that consider that women in the demographic we're trying to recruit are likely to bear and care for children (and care for ageing parents - elder care remains heavily gendered in expectations and execution)...
Mostly, the military's systems assume that you've got a wife back home to care for the family while you do a year-long program of study or take a five month course, or slavishly follow a certain sequence of training and experience.
Or we can not change anything, continue the same way we have for decades, and wonder why, when we don't change the underlying conditions, the outcomes don't change.
Mostly, the military's systems assume that you've got a wife back home to care for the family while you do a year-long program of study or take a five month course, or slavishly follow a certain sequence of training and experience.
Or we can not change anything, continue the same way we have for decades, and wonder why, when we don't change the underlying conditions, the outcomes don't change.