2017. Factors of women’s participation in armed forces 239-251.
In: Dani Arčibalda Rajsa.
Ed: Biljana Simeunović-Patić.
Beograd: Kriminalističko policijska akademija
ISBN 978-86-7020-378-5
COBISS-SR-ID 249244684
In the text are presented factors that contribute to women’s participation in the armed forces. History shows that women in earlier centuries also were active in the armies. But after the end of the armed conflicts they were regularly excluded from military service and military professional privileges, which also happened during the twentieth century, after the First and Second World War and the national liberation wars. Not before the last quarter of the twentieth century began the professional integration of women into the armed forces. The main factor was the lack of men willing and able for military service, but also the current processes of increased social equalization of gender relations. In the text is presented the so-called, “Segal model” of multicollinear impact indicating the existence of multiple independent factors influencing the circumstances of women’s participation in the armed forces. In this text, most attention is paid to military factors, including references to national security, the impact of recently-led wars, international military alliances and changes in military technology. Military transformation, evident over the past decade through the armed forces of NATO member states, inevitably involved the transformation of the military nature of women’s participation. Such transformation, accelerated by the wars in Iraq (and Afghanistan), include changes to the hiring of female staff and their deployment. Today there is an increasingly expressed view that women have a “right to uniform”, as the right to equal professional access, treatment and promotion in any field. Examples of successful military careers of prominent women in the armies of the world’s major military powers, especially the recently promoted women in the highest general rank orders, were also highlighted in the text as models of strong influence to young women’s decision to join the army.
Keywords: women in armed forces, “Segal model” of multicollinear impact, lack of men, national security, NATO member states, “Jenny effect”, women generals.
PRILOG
Factors of women’s participation in armed forces
THEMATIC CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE