Gender Inequalities In Military

I can say watching the Invisible war in class was an eye opener when it came to gender inequality in terms of the military. I remember when I was going through high school Air Force ROTC it was easy to see the difference in the male to female ratio. My career in the Air force not only shape the man I was today, but opened my mind to the inequality of woman compared to men in the military. My sergeant who was one of the very few female sergeants we had used to tell me that “being a woman was a separate job from the military job you were assigned” she used to say that “woman earning respect from the man was a job within the military itself”. I was very lucky when I was put into basic training to have a platoon leader that was a female who showed me this inequality in our military program. I know that in basic training we only had a handful of females compared to men in our graduating class. Not only do woman face that inequality when in the military, but they face that inequality when being accepted into the military in the first place.
My dad who was born in the baby boomer generation said that it was the woman that stayed home while the men went off to war. Inequality not only is gender based, but we see that it’s though each generation that we see how inequality is formed through changing gender norms. It was not until after WW2 were woman were fully integrated into the military. That’s when the notion that woman cannot be in the military started to go away. We still see that generation social inequality plays an important part in the military to this