Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military articles from September 22 1999

Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military archives from September 22 1999

Introduction.(conference on women in armed forces)
September 22, 1999... After talking to many of the fellow-participants and the representatives of several women's organizations, I came to the conclusion that such conferences were worthwhile only if we could find frameworks which would enable us to continue the...

Women, War, and Military in Eastern Europe.
September 22, 1999... As I was collecting material for my new book about the relationship between women and World War II, I interviewed women who experienced the siege of Budapest in the winter of 1944-45.(1) I discovered that what women were most often reading in...

Women in the Austrian Armed Forces.
September 22, 1999... Politico-Historical Background During the last decades many countries offered women the possibility of joining the Armed Forces. In Austria the first high-level political discussion of women joining the military took place in late spring...

National Report: Czech Republic.
September 22, 1999... The history of women in the modern Czech military began during the Second World War, when some 200 women fought alongside men in battles on the Eastern and Western fronts. After the war most of these women were discharged from the military. The...

On the Back of the Third Wave Or, the Woman's Way to a Military Career.
September 22, 1999... The development of our armed forces, one aspect of our civilization, offers the opportunity to observe interesting processes and phenomena, particularly in their relations with closer and more distant surroundings. One of the most fascinating,...

Women in the Armed Forces The Case of Romania.
September 22, 1999... The problems women face in Romania's armed forces are not all that different from those they face in Romanian society in general. Power and decision-making positions are hard to attain. Thus, for example, in the Romanian government there are no...

Women in the Slovenian Armed Forces.
September 22, 1999... I will try to present to you as best I can the current situation of women in the Slovenian Armed Forces from my point of view as an outside observer. In general, the Slovenian Armed Forces reflect the situation in Slovenian politics (only five...

The Role of Women in the Armed Forces of NATO Countries: Military Constraints and Professional Identities.
September 22, 1999... The fight to fight and lead wars has until very recently always been considered an exclusively masculine prerogative. With the exception of war heroines and mythological figures, women have effectively taken part in combat only in exceptional...

Leadership Considerations and Lessons Learned in a Mixed Gender Environment.
September 22, 1999... A military force in which mutual respect, trust, and loyalty are lacking is not an effective force, it is a hollow shell, nothing more than a gang of individuals, lacking cohesion and common purpose, each acting alone and looking out for his or...

The Establishment of the Hungarian Women Soldier's Section and Its Justification.
September 22, 1999... Today, the number of women who, after conscious consideration, choose and take up military service as a career is ever growing, due to family background, the growing prestige of the profession, or perhaps a desire for a challenge. Today, when...

Training of Women Officers.
September 22, 1999... To begin with, let me introduce myself. I am the director general at Janos Bolyai Military Technical College, which was, in 1994, the first institution in Hungary to admit women into the four-year undergraduate education to train officers. At...

Training Possibilities for Women.
September 22, 1999... The flow of women into the army started as a spontaneous process, supported by the military leadership. Constitutional regulations created practical opportunities for women, based on aptitude, to perform all duties in the Hungarian Armed Forces...

Women Soldiers and Human Resources Policy.
September 22, 1999... Today, when the army is making fundamental changes in its human resources policy, it is important to consider the question of female personnel more thoroughly. The situation of women soldiers requires detailed investigation since it is...

Women in the Hungarian Armed Forces.
September 22, 1999... The number of professional and contractual female soldiers in the Hungarian Armed Forces increased annually during the 1990s. The growth in the number of female soldiers in ensign and junior officer positions was especially noteworthy....

Career Picture, Values Orientation, and Sentiments of Szolnok ATC Students.
September 22, 1999... As a graduating ATC student I carried out a survey among students who had specialized in Air Traffic Control at the Institute of Aviation Officers at the Miklos Zrinyi National Defense University. The 27 respondents included 13 women, of whom...

Career-socialization of Women College Students.
September 22, 1999... In 1998, a survey was carried out which involved all the women students (years one to four) in the two Hungarian military colleges. The aim of the research was to survey, within a motivational research context, all those family and other...