Recruit profiles across the U.S. Armed Forces: Implications for increasing gender integration in recruit training
Kleykamp, M., Montgomery, S., &
Lovalekar, M. (2024). Recruit profiles across the U.S. armed forces:
Implications for increasing gender integration in recruit training. Military
Medicine, 189(S2), 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usae254
Abstract Created by REACH
To inform the U.S. Marine Corps’ efforts at improving gender integration in recruit training, this study compared military recruits’ perceptions of unit cohesion, gender roles, and sexist beliefs across military branches and by gender. To examine whether their perspectives changed over the course of training, military recruits from the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard (n = 161) completed surveys shortly before completing their training and Marine Corps recruits (n = 468) did so at the beginning and end of training. In general, male Marine Corps recruits tended to endorse more traditional gender roles and more sexist beliefs than both female Marine Corps recruits and male recruits in other branches.
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