Actually come to the course. So thats a key part of that piece, and then when it comes to the communications, clearly a communications is a big part of our trust. We need to explain why the gender neutral standards, how were going to ensure that everybody meets those standards, both men and women, why theyre necessary for the occupation in the first place because theres some question as to is it really the right task that should be done in these standards, in these different moss, and then that by communicating that a little more effectively than we have, this is going to help us build the trust for both men and women to want to continue down that pipeline for those different areas. Thats an important part of the implementation plan. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, please. Sue fulton, im the chair of the u. S. Military board of visitors. Former signal officer. Obviously, we are dealing with a question of Critical Mass too and i want to go back to that because i want to follow up a little bi
Leadership that we quite often consider quite acceptable because they are usually quite effective. They create the kind of units that perform according to the standards at the end of the day. Why should we fire them if theyre effective as officers. While actually they are producing unit cultures that in the end may become really problematic. Some experiences with the worst cases of units misbehavior leading to crimes or war crimes, for example. We have the business literature out there supporting us more and more. That doesnt mean so much, though. Because, again we are looking at combat that doesnt apply because warfare is something completely different. You can always dismiss that. Thats very clear, though. We are seeing the same thing within diplomacy and negotiations and humanitarian affairs that if you have gender lenses. Youll do it more effectively. One might assume that applies to the military affairs and intelligence gathering, as well. Unless its so unique that it doesnt, agai
Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409 women and 379 female marines against and what they found from this combat proxy test was that about well not about, but 66 of the very good performers were men and 34 were women, and then the highest performing categories, it was 92 were men and 8 were women. So this initial Screening Test that they developed showed that there was certainly a percentage of women that fell into the good and the ve
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