scholarly journals Working Around the Military: Challenges of Military Spouse Employment

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Harrell ◽  
Nelson Lim ◽  
Laura Werber ◽  
Daniela Golinelli
Keyword(s):  
Military Spouse ◽  
Military Spouse Employment ◽  
The Military

Evaluation of the Military Spouse Employment Partnership: Progress Report on First Stage of Analysis

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Gonzalez ◽  
Luke Matthews ◽  
Marek Posard ◽  
Parisa Roshan ◽  
Shirley Ross
Keyword(s):  
Progress Report ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Military Spouse Employment ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals Working Around the Military: Challenges to Military Spouse Employment and Education

10.7249/mg196 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Harrell ◽  
Nelson Lim ◽  
Laura Werber ◽  
Daniela Golinelli
Keyword(s):  
Military Spouse ◽  
Military Spouse Employment ◽  
The Military

A Critical Review of Barriers to United States Military Spouse Education and Employment

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-147
Author(s):  
Crystal Lewis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Active Duty ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Military ◽  
Educational Pursuits

In the United States, there are over one million military spouses. Frequent geographical relocations, the psychological stress and anxiety associated with spousal deployments, and supporting their children as the only parent while their active duty spouse is away leave military spouses disproportionately accountable for all family obligations. Ultimately, these inequities create barriers for military spouses and their employment and educational pursuits. Despite similarities in lifestyle to active duty service members, military spouses are not categorized as an at-risk population and have not been studied in depth. This chapter utilized the source, survey, synthesize method to address the literature gap surrounding the barriers to military spouse education and employment. Findings from the existing literature were synthesized to present the key themes for studies that investigated the military culture, barriers to military spouses' pursuits of higher education, employment, and career advancement and earnings.

scholarly journals “Honey, I Want to Be a Surrogate”: How Military Spouses Negotiate and Navigate Surrogacy With Their Service Member Husbands

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (18) ◽  
pp. 2774-2800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ziff
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Member ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Military Marriages ◽  
The Military ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines how military spouses negotiate the decision to become a surrogate with their service member husband and how the two navigate surrogacy together. It is speculated that military spouses are ideal candidates for surrogacy due to their particular status as a military spouse; however, military spouses face structural constraints in their everyday lives which in turn would prove challenging to their desire to become a surrogate. Based on in-depth interviews with 33 military spouses who had been surrogates, this article examines how military spouses discuss, negotiate, and experience surrogacy with their spouses all the while navigating the structural demands of the military and the contractual demands of surrogacy. Findings highlight egalitarian decision making between the spouses, and a mostly collaborative approach to the surrogacy process. Ultimately, this work illuminates how surrogacy is experienced by the women who participate in the practice and provides insight as to how military marriages function.

A Critical Review of Barriers to United States Military Spouse Education and Employment

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-215
Author(s):  
Crystal Lewis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Active Duty ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Military ◽  
Educational Pursuits

In the United States, there are over one million military spouses. Frequent geographical relocations, the psychological stress and anxiety associated with spousal deployments, and supporting their children as the only parent while their active duty spouse is away leave military spouses disproportionately accountable for all family obligations. Ultimately, these inequities create barriers for military spouses and their employment and educational pursuits. Despite similarities in lifestyle to active duty service members, military spouses are not categorized as an at-risk population and have not been studied in depth. This chapter utilized the source, survey, synthesize method to address the literature gap surrounding the barriers to military spouse education and employment. Findings from the existing literature were synthesized to present the key themes for studies that investigated the military culture, barriers to military spouses' pursuits of higher education, employment, and career advancement and earnings.

Understanding the military spouse learner using theory and personal narratives

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (136) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Gleiman ◽  
Stacy Swearengen
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
The Military

Finding and Creating Opportunity: Nurses Married to Members of the Military

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-175
Author(s):  
Brenda Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Practice Nurses ◽  
Military Service Members ◽  
The Military

Nursing is a profession that affords many avenues in which to practice. Nurses who are married to military service members have unique challenges as they progress through their careers. A military spouse shares a personal perspective of challenges and insight on how to overcome and persevere that may be relevant to others within the greater nursing community.

“I’m Not Your ‘Typical’ Military Wife”: The Construction of Gender and Agency Through Stereotypes

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ziff ◽  
Felicia Garland-Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Military Wives ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Gender Policing ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Military Wife ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The One ◽  
The Military ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Symbolic Boundary

Within the institution and military community, civilian wives of service members occupy complicated roles. On the one hand, wives are undisputedly crucial to the functioning of their service member husbands. However, wives are simultaneously considered subordinate to their husbands within the military and extended community. Indicative of this attitude are the divisive stereotypes of military wives that range from lazy and irresponsible, to overly rank-conscious and entitled. Based on combined in-depth interviews from two samples of military wives, this article investigates how the women navigate the military spouse role within the institutional, community-oriented context of the military. Specifically, we ask, how do these women construct gender and exercise agency when drawing on the stereotypes of wives within the community? By utilizing such mechanisms as symbolic boundary work, gender policing, and stereotyping, women both reify stereotypes of the military spouse and exert agency in creating the military spouse identity for themselves.

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