Post-9/11 Women Veterans

"The purpose of this analysis is to investigate how a new generation of women veterans who served in the Armed Forces after the events of September 11, 2001 is different from their All-Volunteer Force (AVF) predecessors who served between the end of the Vietnam Era and 1990, in terms of their post-military social and economic outcomes. This analysis also compares Post-9/11 women veterans to their similarly-aged nonveteran counterparts" (p. 3). (Abstractor: Author)

The numerous findings for this study included:Women who served on active duty after the events of September 11, 2001 differ in many respects from their early AVF predecessors: They are more racially diverse than their predecessors and they are more likely never to have been married. Post-9/11 women veterans also differed from nonveterans: They are more likely than their nonveteran counterparts to be African-American and a higher number of them are divorced. The most common occupations for women veterans from the post-9/11 era continue to be those that have been traditionally dominated by females- such as administrative assistant, registered nurse, and waitress. (p. 4-9) (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)

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• Resource Publication Date: 2010
• Author(s): Holder, Kelly Ann
• Organizational Author(s): Housing and Household Economics Statitics Division, U.S. Census Bureau
• Funding Source: Funding source not identified
• Resource Availability: Publicly available
• Posted by: Wesley Peterson
• Posted in: Workforce System Strategies