Combat Leadership
Women currently make up more than 14% of the 1.4 million active military personnel but were not allowed to serve in over 230,000 combat positions; despite that they have increasingly served at the front lines (Goudreau, 2013). In 2013, the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta decided to allow women to serve in military combat roles, reversing a 1994 policy that excluded women from serving in combat units. This ensures that the best person is in a leadership position regardless of their sex. For instance, if the best sniper is a woman, it should be her in that role. On the contrary, some people believe that women are not physically built like men, attempts to integrate them may lead to lowered standards overall. Additionally, women in combat units may negatively change the dynamics, creating conditions of sexual competition and sexual harassment. Old-fashioned sexism involves overt contentions that women are inferior and that their roles should be restricted to those consistent with femininity (Young & Nauta, 2013).
During the time of drafting in the military, the Supreme Court held that Congress …show more content…
During military basic training all soldiers are drilled to execute standard procedures and are continuously educated to respect the military hierarchy through systematically disciplining of inappropriate behaviors, this may explain why the transactional type of leadership, especially based on contingent rewarding, is conceived as the most appropriate in effectively leading a unit in a critical context (Di Schiena, R., Letens, Van Aken, & Farris,
Women currently make up more than 14% of the 1.4 million active military personnel but were not allowed to serve in over 230,000 combat positions; despite that they have increasingly served at the front lines (Goudreau, 2013). In 2013, the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta decided to allow women to serve in military combat roles, reversing a 1994 policy that excluded women from serving in combat units. This ensures that the best person is in a leadership position regardless of their sex. For instance, if the best sniper is a woman, it should be her in that role. On the contrary, some people believe that women are not physically built like men, attempts to integrate them may lead to lowered standards overall. Additionally, women in combat units may negatively change the dynamics, creating conditions of sexual competition and sexual harassment. Old-fashioned sexism involves overt contentions that women are inferior and that their roles should be restricted to those consistent with femininity (Young & Nauta, 2013).
During the time of drafting in the military, the Supreme Court held that Congress …show more content…
During military basic training all soldiers are drilled to execute standard procedures and are continuously educated to respect the military hierarchy through systematically disciplining of inappropriate behaviors, this may explain why the transactional type of leadership, especially based on contingent rewarding, is conceived as the most appropriate in effectively leading a unit in a critical context (Di Schiena, R., Letens, Van Aken, & Farris,