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Germano, Kate, 1973-
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Germano, Kate, 1973-
United States. Marine Corps -- Women -- Training of.
United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 11th. Battalion, 4th -- Biography.
United States. Marine Corps -- Women -- Social conditions.
United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography.
Women marines -- United States -- Training of.
Women and the military -- United States.
Sexism -- United States.
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Germano, Kate, 1973-
Germano, Kate, 1973-
United States. Marine Corps -- Women -- Training of.
United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 11th. Battalion, 4th -- Biography.
United States. Marine Corps -- Women -- Social conditions.
United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography.
Women marines -- United States -- Training of.
Women and the military -- United States.
Sexism -- United States.
MARC Display
Fight like a girl : the truth behind how female Marines are trained / Kate Germano ; with Kelly Kennedy.
by
Germano, Kate, 1973-
Prometheus Books, 2018.
Call #:
359.96092 G373f
Subjects
Germano, Kate, 1973-
United
States
.
Marine
Corps
--
Women
--
Training
of.
United
States
.
Marine
Corps
.
Marine
Regiment, 11th. Battalion, 4th
--
Biography.
United
States
.
Marine
Corps
--
Women
--
Social conditions.
United
States
.
Marine
Corps
--
Officers
--
Biography.
Women
marines
--
United
States
--
Training
of.
Women
and the military
--
United
States
.
Sexism
--
United
States
.
ISBN:
9781633884137 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Truth behind how female Marines are trained
Description:
304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304).
Contents:
Tears and cupcakes
--
The firing squad
--
Not smart enough to be a sailor
--
Data geek
--
The rest of the story
--
Esprit de cult
--
Fourth dimension
--
Iron ladies
--
Great expectations
--
Separate but not equal
--
Corsets kill careers
--
Moving targets
--
Pizza boxes
--
Preaching integration
--
Shoot like a girl
--
Train like a girl
--
Mean girls and mobbing
--
When there's no one left to blame
--
Fisticuffs
--
While the cat is away
--
Thumpin' third
--
Good news travels fast
--
Like a (bad) boss
--
Climate change
--
The rapist is always wrong
--
Worst of the worst
--
General relativity
--
Kill the messenger
--
Leaked like a sieve
--
Command performance
--
Equal opportunist
--
Fifth dimension: a lifetime of devotion.
Summary:
"The
Marine
Corps
continues to be the only service where men and
women
train separately in boot camp or basic
training
. This segregation negatively affects interaction with male marines later on, and, lower expectations of female recruits are actively maintained and encouraged. But Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit
Training
Battalion at Parris Island—which exclusively trains female recruits—convinced that if she expected more of the
women
just coming into
Corps
, she could raise historically low standards for female performance and make
women
better Marines. And, after one year, shooting qualifications of the
women
under her command equaled those of men, injuries had decreased, and unit morale had noticeably improved. Then the Marines fired her. This is the story of Germano's struggle to achieve equality of performance and opportunity for female Marines against an entrenched male-dominated status quo. It is also a universal tale of the effects of systemic gender bias. Germano charges that the men above her in the chain of command were too invested in perpetuating the subordinate role of
women
in the
Corps
to allow her to prove that the female
Marine
can be equal to her male counterpart. She notes that the
Marine
Corps
' $35-million gender-integration study, which shows that all-male squads perform at a higher level than mixed male-female squads, flies in the face of the results she demonstrated with the all-female Fourth Battalion and raises questions about the
Marine
Corps
' willingness to let
women
succeed. At a time when
women
are fighting sexism and systemic bias in many sectors of society, Germano's experience has wide-ranging implications and lessons—not just for the military but also for corporate America, the labor force, education, and government."--Publisher.
Other authors:
Kennedy, Kelly, 1970-
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