The Military Spouse Education and Career Opportunities Program: Recommendations for an Internal Monitoring System

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Gonzalez ◽  
Laura Miller ◽  
Thomas Trail
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Career Opportunities Program ◽  
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.

What Vocational and Career Opportunities Are Available To Boys Entering the Military Service?

1956 ◽  
Vol 40 (219) ◽  
pp. 308-316
Author(s):  
William J. Feallock ◽  
R.W. Sylvester ◽  
Thomas R. Wert ◽  
Roy S. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The Military

Female Empowerment and the Chain of Command: Women in the U.S. Military

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Sanford-Jenson ◽  
Marla H. Kohlman
Keyword(s):  
Public And Private ◽  
Women In The Military ◽  
Reproductive Health Care ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Armed Services ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. military has garnered considerable scrutiny over how successfully it has incorporated women into full participation. With the formal infusion of women into the Armed Services in the last half of the twentieth century, scholars have begun to examine women’s military experiences as they have entered into new occupational roles, putting women ever closer to controversial combat-related work. Accompanying these increased career opportunities are age-old risks reported in the civilian workplace, including the increased likelihood of harassment, rape, discrimination, subjugation, and other types of gender-based inequality. This chapter provides a detailed synthesis of myriad social movement experiences for women in the military as they have sought to define new roles and participate more fully in the all-volunteer forces. Specifically, the chapter examines sexist practice, combat inclusion, sexual victimization, expansion of reproductive health care, veteran’s benefits, and legal avenues for women’s social movements both in public and private spheres.

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.

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

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.

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

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
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