Question

write a 5 paragraph Informative speech about women in the military.

Answer 1

The U.S. military has taken major measures in the past decade to create a more diverse and inclusive force that attracts the nation's best talent. In particular, in recent years, the services have opened more doors to women, putting an end to restrictions on combat roles. However, women and racial and ethnic minorities remain under-represented in parts of the military, especially at the highest level of leadership. The army has also opened its ranks to openly persons, but it has upheld broad bans on transgender people.

The women who serve in the military today vary from the men who serve in a variety of respects. Compared to their male counterparts, a greater proportion of military women are black and a smaller proportion are married. Women veterans of the post-9/11 era are also less likely than men to have fought in combat and are more likely to be critical of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In However, military women are not different from military men: they are just as likely to be officers; they have joined the armed services for similar reasons; and post-9/11 veterans of both sexes have experienced a similar mix of struggles and rewards on their return to civilian life.

When the bill ended in 1973, women accounted for just 2 per cent of the enlisted forces and 8 per cent of the officer corps. Today, those numbers are 16 percent and 19 percent , respectively, a significant increase over the last half-century. Again, the numbers vary greatly depending on the service. Women accounted for around one-fifth of the officers of any military branch, except the Marine Corps, where they accounted for just 8 per cent of the total. In the army, the air force and the coast guard, the ratio of female officers was higher than that of women enlisted.

Women made up 2.7% of the front-line military units. Women were barred from combat, but were permitted to serve on gun crews, air crews and seamanship specialties. Among the officers, 5.4% of those involved in "tactical operations" were women. Despite the official ban on combat, women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan often found themselves engaged in firefighting. Women made up 67 of the nearly 3,500 Americans killed in hostile fire in Iraq and 33 of the 1,700-plus killed in combat in Afghanistan; more than 600 wounded in Iraq and 300 wounded in Afghanistan.