Posted on Jul 24, 2019
Lawmakers nominate far more men than women for military service academies each year: Report
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This is the kind of yellow journalism that would lead a sheep to believe we had a problem here. Down in the bowels of the article, there is a single half-sentence, "...it’s unclear if more men were vying for nominations than women." THINK about this. They never looked at the number of men APPLYING versus the number of women applying...they just posted the nomination numbers AS IF it was evidence there was sexism or preferential treatment for men. Let's get the REAL statistics before we assume there is a problem: What percentage of male applicants are nominated? What percentage of female applicants? What are the average combined scores (academic, athletic, and whole-person) of each sex? But the Military Times doesn't seem to want those numbers. It just wants drama and conflict within the military.
Lawmakers nominate far more men than women for military service academies each year: Report
Posted from militarytimes.com
United States Air Force Academy (USAFA)
United States Military Academy (USMA West Point)
United States Naval Academy (USNA)
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I guess personally I would expect statistics to more or less follow the demographics that join the military in every capacity. That would be roughly one Servicemember in six. Anything significantly over or below that would represent over/under representation. So if I use the numbers in the article, women are receiving nominations representing about one in five (21%) of the total number. So the deviation is towards an OVER representation of women as a percentage of total people interested in military service, but not significantly so.
Nothing burger.
Nothing burger.
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Seems to me that this is reminiscent to the "gender gap" in pay where the statistics fail to account for the choice of career path, the decision to leave the workforce for kids, and any other applicable factor.
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Without looking at how many women pursue nominations to begin with, the title of that article is click-baity...it's lazy writing. Aside from all that, I hope we continue to see women represent a larger and larger percentage of nominees -- and ultimately of the overall military community. Women would bring a ton of value to the table for nearly any military organization. My 2 cents...
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Amen. Some of my best Soldiers were women. I would go to war with Valento, Jones, Iwanski, Ringler, or Young any day of the week.
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