The Need for DoD Gender Parity
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By Mackenzie Eaglen
October 09, 2019
The Need for DoD Gender Parity
This summer, 15 Democratic candidates running to become president of the United States pledged that, if elected, they will seek gender parity in their national security appointments across government.
This is encouraging given the disappointing trends in this field. To highlight a few:
The Pentagon currently has just one woman at the undersecretary level, and just 15 percent of senior defense officials are female.
Similarly, the Defense Department has never exceeded 23 percent female of those occupying senior positions, as published by the New America Foundation.
Nor have women surpassed 40 percent of senior positions (assistant secretary level and above) at the State Department, according to Heather Hurlburt and Tamara Cofman Wittes.
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