WASHINGTON, March 1, 2018 — Today, the Defense Advisory Committee
on Women in the Services released its 2017 annual report on matters relating to
women serving in the armed forces of the United States, according to a DoD news
release.
DACOWITS provides the Defense Department with advice and
recommendations on matters and policies relating to women in the armed forces.
The committee provides these recommendations to the
Secretary of Defense via a comprehensive annual report, based on information
gathered throughout the year.
For 2017, DACOWITS studied 13 topics. The committee gathered
information from multiple sources including briefings and written responses
from DoD, service-level military representatives, and subject matter experts;
data collected from focus groups and interactions with service members during
installation visits; and peer-reviewed literature. DACOWITS collected
qualitative data during their visits to multiple installations representing the
Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard.
Recommendations
Based upon the data collected and analyzed, the committee
submitted 17 recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on the following
topics: accession and marketing, recruiting strategies, propensity to serve,
mid-career retention, dual-military co-location policies, gender integration,
key opportunities and assignments, gender integrated boxing, physiological
gender differences, parent leave policies, childcare resources, family care
plan policies, and the impacts of social media and sexual harassment online.
The report is available online and includes detailed
reasoning supporting each recommendation addressed by the committee.
Established in 1951, DACOWITS is one of the oldest DOD
federal advisory committees. The committee was created following the signing of
the 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act. The law enabled women to serve
as permanent, regular members of the armed forces in the Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, and Air Force.
Over the years, DACOWITS has been instrumental to the DoD
and has made significant contributions on topics including opening career
fields, specialties, schooling and training to women; developing gender neutral
occupational standards; improving to the health of deployed servicewomen; and
increasing marketing, accessions and recruiting.
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