Military personnel: DOD is expanding combat service opportunities for women, but should monitor long-term integration progress : report to congressional committees / United States Government Accountability Office.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Personnel management.

United States.

U.S. Special Operations Command--Data processing.

U.S. Special Operations Command.

United States. Department of Defense.

Women in combat--United States.

Women in combat.

United States--Armed Forces--Women.

United States--Armed Forces--Occupational specialties.

United States--Armed Forces--Job descriptions.

Armed Forces.

Armed Forces--Occupational specialties.

Armed Forces--Women.

Personnel management--Evaluation.

Genre:

Job descriptions

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 55 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Military personnel: Department of Defense is expanding combat service opportunities for women, but should monitor long-term integration progress

DOD is expanding combat service opportunities for women, but should monitor long-term integration progress

GAO-15-589 Integrating women into combat

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2015.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"Since September 2001 more than 300,000 women have been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more than 800 women have been wounded and more than 130 have died. A 1994 rule prohibited women from being assigned to many direct ground-combat units, but on January 24, 2013, the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rescinded the rule and directed the military services to open closed positions and occupations to women by January 1, 2016. Senate Report 113-176 had a provision for GAO to review the services' progress in opening closed positions and occupations to women. This report assesses the (1) status of service efforts to open positions and occupations to women, including steps to identify and mitigate potential challenges; (2) extent the services' efforts to validate gender-neutral occupational standards are consistent with statutory and Joint Staff requirements; and (3) extent DOD is tracking, monitoring, and providing oversight of the services' integration plans. GAO analyzed statutes, DOD guidance, and service reports and plans, and interviewed DOD officials"--Preliminary page.

Contents:

Background

Services have opened selected positions and occupations to women, are determining whether to integrate direct ground-combat occupations, and are taking steps to identify and mitigate potential challenges

Services and SOCOM have studies underway to validate gender-neutral occupational standards

DOD is providing oversight of integration efforts, but has not developed plans to monitor long-term progress in integrating women into combat positions

Conclusions.

Notes:

"July 2015."

"GAO-15-589."

In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Catalog and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed July 24, 2015).

OCLC:

914345010