Romanticizing Leadership: Gender Biases – Whitney Withrow – Medium

I understand what you are getting at but I would tell you we have to be responsible for changing the conversation and not just complaining about it. Read Deborah Tannen's Talking 9 to 5 and see if you are communicating in a way that encourages questions about your performance or speaks to your professionalism. I have several different talk "modes" that reflect who my audience is.

There are no genders in the military. There is a last name and a rank. I never sat in a briefing and broke everyone down by anything other than their rank and their organization on our task organization. // as for the point about the individual Commands being asked questions about their current stance - I pose that it could be because either the unit is not in the parent units task .org and or the higher commander and staff do not have the current SA on the unit(s).

I think the writer is too caught up in the gender bias issue. The military has ranks and duty assignments. All anyone cares about is you doing your job. Especially in the Air Force where we have many female leaders, including multiple generals and Command Chiefs. My current Wing Command Chief (in an AFSOC unit) is a woman. I call her Chief and I don’t think of her as anything but the Chief. She will get “aw shits” or “attaboys” based on her performance only.(No disrespect meant with the term attaboy).

The author gave her own issues away when she was offended by the term “Army Girl.” Seriously?? If she was a man the maintenance guy would have called her a Army guy. No one uses the term “Army Man” as she suggested. What’s the difference between Army guy and Army girl?