SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE MIL

Does the Military Continue to Have Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Against Women in the 90’s?” Yes, the military does have sexual harassment and discrimination against women in the nineties. “Firestone and co-researcher Richard J. Hurns analyzed a 1988 DOD Survey of men and women in the military and found that 51.8 % of men and 74.6% of women reported either experiencing or knowing of sexual harassment. Amoung the women surveyed, 70.1% had experienced “sexual talk or behavior at the work …

…sailors and officers. For the men, this has ment careers wrecked by lewd indiscretions. And the Navy’s women have been forced to learn how both to go along and to fight back-- with very mixed success. One has to wonder if we could go back in time, and erase Vietnam, would this still have happened anyway. Footnotes 1.) Donegan, p.363 2.) Navy Times, p.1 3.) Military Women Profile, p.1 4.) Capital Online, p.2 5.) Air Force News Service, p.1