Gender Integration in NATO Military Forces

Cross-national Analysis
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6476-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: Gender in a Global/Local World

Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, states have dramatically increased women’s numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions. Yet despite changes and initiatives on both domestic and international levels to integrate gender perspectives into the military, not all states have improved to the same extent. Some have successfully promoted gender integration in the ranks by erasing all forms of discrimination, but others continue to impede it by setting limitations on equal access to careers, combat, and ranks. Why do states abandon their policies of exclusion and promote gender integration in a way that women’s military participation becomes an integral part of military force? By examining twenty-four NATO member states, this book argues that civilian policymakers and military leadership no longer surrender to parochial gendered division of the roles, but rather support integration to meet the recruitment numbers due to military modernization, professionalization and technological advancements. Moreover, it proposes that increased pressure by the United Nations to integrate gender into security and NATO seeking standardization and consistency on the international level, and women’s movements on the domestic level, are contributing to greater gender integration in the military.

Winner of the 2015 ERGOMAS "Best Book in Civil-Military Relations" Award.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Obradovic, Lana

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Militär- und Verteidigungstechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Gender Integration in the Military; Chapter 3 Cross-National Analysis of Gender Integration Policies in NATO; Chapter 4 Gender Integration in the Original Members of NATO; Chapter 5 Gender Integration in the New Members of NATO; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Nebraska Omaha, Lana Obradovic has held teaching positions at Yonsei University in South Korea, St. John’s University, Mercy College and CUNY in New York City.