The Challenges Women Face in the Military

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The article ‘‘Adversary during military service: the impact of military sexual trauma, emotional bullying and physical assault on the mental health and well-being of women veterans’’ by Hendrikx, Williamson, and Murphy talk about the challenges women face in the military. It emphasizes sexual harassment, emotional bullying, and physical assault as the primary challenges women encounter in the military. Dated October 30, 2021, the article is a peer-reviewed journal published by the British Medical Journal. This piece provides relevant and accurate data obtained from a survey done with 750 women veterans.
Responses from the survey show that many participants had experienced one of these problems: physical assault, emotional bullying, and sexual assault or harassment. In particular, the article reports that 22.5% of the respondents had experienced harassment, 3.3% had encountered physical assault, 22.7% emotional bullying, and 5.1% sexual assault (Hendrikx et al.). Since the information was first-hand, the article concluded that being a woman in the military requires resilience due to numerous challenges that subject them to physical, psychological, and emotional torture.
Article Critique
The article seeks to address the challenges encountered by women in the military. The research problem being addressed is whether women veterans are at risk of multiple adverse experiences during military service. While the article produced reliable results indicating that women are prone to sexual harassment, physical assault, and emotional bullying, there are limitations to the sample and generalizability of findings.
Out of 16,500 women serving in the military, only 750 women veterans were surveyed (Hendrikx et al.). It is hard to...