Abstract
ABSTRACT This study examines the employment of gendered frameworks accompanying organizational imperatives to diversify and offer equal opportunities through a content analysis of the Women in Service Review conducted prior to gender integration of the U.S. military’s combat arms in 2015. Through a framework of gender difference, these documents support the organizational position that integrating women into combat arms can enhance, but mostly endangers, military capability. Additionally, the military’s focus on developing gender-neutral standards both claims erasure of gender as a barrier to inclusion while asserting “intrinsic” gender differences that account for (and justify) women’s continued underrepresentation in combat arms units.
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