Discrimination In The Military Case Study

Corps. Twenty years later “that Congress mandated that the Department of Defense form a task force on Military sexual assault.”(6) There has been countless incidents that have occurred regarding discrimination in the work place another example is “Christine Smith -a civilian who says that in 2006 she was raped by a man serving in the airborne division -said that they’d lost her underwear, so didn't introduce it as evidence. But after the solider was acquitted Smith received a phone call saying she could come retrieve the underwear from military investigative office.”(6) In this case even though the rape case was reported the military investigative team over looked the wrong doings of the solider, not punishing the man for his wrong doings. …show more content…
What does this do for the civilian, it only leaves her with anger and hatred for not having justice. “The ACLU finds that only 8 percent of them are prosecuted - the civilian system prosecutes 40 percent of alleged perpetrators- and the military trials are often stunningly mishandled.”(6) Because of the military failing to handle situations in the proper way it causes female soldiers to want to leave the military sooner. This is understandable for the way the male soldiers have been treating females and even civilians. “He’s a good soldier. He just cant handle an integrated training environment.”(6) If women are respecting men in this area of work, men should respect women as well. Many jobs in todays decade have both men and women working in the same line of