On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Ingrid wrote: > The other inherent bias is the ''type'' of woman that joins the military. A > military career is a fairly conformist choice for many men, but relatively > nonconformist, even challenging, for most women. Similar findings have been > observed in the corporate sector where female employees account for > disproportionate numbers of whistleblowers, for instance.
It is definitely not a representative distribution by all anecdotal appearances. As I recall, volunteer militaries tend to find their equilibrium around 15-20% female. When instituting strict gender-blind policies the equilibrium falls to somewhere around 5% if I remember correctly.
