What to make of this AP story?
Women fought for years to get in the armed forces only to say they don't actually want to fight. This was a survey of nearly all the service's 170,000 women:
"Less than 8 percent of Army women who responded to the survey said they wanted a combat job. Of those, an overwhelming number said they'd like to be a Night Stalker — a member of the elite special operations helicopter crews who perhaps are best known for flying the Navy SEALS into Osama bin Laden's compound in 2011."
"Last year top Pentagon officials signed an order saying women must have the same opportunities as men in combat jobs and the services have been devising updated physical standards, training, education and other programs for thousands of jobs they must open Jan. 1, 2016. The services must open as many jobs to women as possible; if they decide to keep some closed, they must explain why."
Is anyone else getting cognitive dissonance here: give us the equal opportunity we don't actually want! Even if you're not in the service, this mindset has been known to pop up in the workplace and is indicative, I think, of how women behave in professional situations, making demands for responsibilities they don't really want to take on.
Women fought for years to get in the armed forces only to say they don't actually want to fight. This was a survey of nearly all the service's 170,000 women:
"Less than 8 percent of Army women who responded to the survey said they wanted a combat job. Of those, an overwhelming number said they'd like to be a Night Stalker — a member of the elite special operations helicopter crews who perhaps are best known for flying the Navy SEALS into Osama bin Laden's compound in 2011."
"Last year top Pentagon officials signed an order saying women must have the same opportunities as men in combat jobs and the services have been devising updated physical standards, training, education and other programs for thousands of jobs they must open Jan. 1, 2016. The services must open as many jobs to women as possible; if they decide to keep some closed, they must explain why."
Is anyone else getting cognitive dissonance here: give us the equal opportunity we don't actually want! Even if you're not in the service, this mindset has been known to pop up in the workplace and is indicative, I think, of how women behave in professional situations, making demands for responsibilities they don't really want to take on.