Navy Bureaucracy Has No Idea How To Make Job Title ‘Yeoman’ Gender-Neutral

[Dos Equis]

Some whacked out priorities right there.

Navy Bureaucracy Has No Idea How To Make Job Title ‘Yeoman’ Gender-Neutral
JONAH BENNETT
Reporter
04/04/2016

The Navy is hell-bent on adjusting job titles to suit gender equality, but the bureaucracy is stumped on changing the clerical position of “yeoman” and has mulled over alternatives like “yeo-person” and “yeo-specialist” as replacements.

But up to this point, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Michael D. Stevens has rejected all these new alternatives to the administrative position of yeoman, The New York Times reports.

As part of the effort to integrate women into all combat roles, the Navy has pushed to make job titles with the word “man” more gender neutral, preferring titles like “technician” and “specialist” over “rifleman,” “mineman,” and “assault man.”

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been at the forefront of making the service more hospitable to women. He opened submarines to women in 2010, and in 2015, he tripled maternity leave to lower the number of women dropping out of the Navy. He also has advocated to open all combat roles to women and bashed Marine Corps leadership for submitting an exemption recommending otherwise. Despite a Marine Corps study showing that mixed-gender units vastly underperformed relative to male-only units, Mabus insisted first that the study was biased, and second said that even if the study were solid, at least some women would be able to make the cut, so opening all combat roles to women was the right step to take.
 
For Mabus, changing job titles is clearly the next step to making women feel more comfortable.

No title modifications are yet final, but in the next few weeks, Mabus will deliver formal recommendations.

“There may be a few iconic titles you are not going to change because they are so deeply rooted and have been there for so long that they don’t denote gender,” Mabus told The New York Times.

His singular obsession with increasing diversity in the military has led GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter to call for his resignation.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/04/navy-bureaucracy-has-no-idea-how-to-make-job-title-yeoman-gender-neutral/#ixzz454BJnvrm

[Dos Equis]

Navy women issued iconic 'Dixie cup' for first time
WUSA
April 06, 2016


Navy recruits will soon don the same head covers, as part of a junior enlisted uniform overhaul led by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to promote gender equality in appearance.

The days are numbered for the women's bucket cover, as women at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. were fitted for "Dixie cups" at uniform issue on Monday.

Women in the fleet have until Oct. 31 to switch out their covers, as outlined in NAVADMIN 236/15.

"It's really awesome how something as simple as our cover is so symbolic in regards to equality and the uniformity in the military," Seaman Recruit Madeleine Bohnert said in the Navy release.

Similarly, female officers and senior enlisted are making the switch to new uniforms based on traditional men's styles, with combination covers and mandarin-collar dress whites.

"We're already part of a team and this just promotes it in a better way," recruit division commander Engineman 2nd Class Shanice Floyd said in the release. "Junior enlisted males and females already wear the same dress white uniform so this way when we get into the same dress blues uniform we'll look more as a unit."

Women at boot camp will begin receiving restyled blue crackerjacks in October, followed by the white version in October 2017.

Senior enlisted women have until January 2020 make the switch with their dress whites, while junior enlisted women have until that date to get blue crackerjacks, followed by the white version no later than October 2021.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/nation-now/navy-women-issued-iconic-dixie-cup-for-first-time/122559495

[Straw Man]

Some whacked out priorities right there.

Navy Bureaucracy Has No Idea How To Make Job Title ‘Yeoman’ Gender-Neutral
JONAH BENNETT
Reporter
04/04/2016

The Navy is hell-bent on adjusting job titles to suit gender equality, but the bureaucracy is stumped on changing the clerical position of “yeoman” and has mulled over alternatives like “yeo-person” and “yeo-specialist” as replacements.

But up to this point, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Michael D. Stevens has rejected all these new alternatives to the administrative position of yeoman, The New York Times reports.

As part of the effort to integrate women into all combat roles, the Navy has pushed to make job titles with the word “man” more gender neutral, preferring titles like “technician” and “specialist” over “rifleman,” “mineman,” and “assault man.”

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been at the forefront of making the service more hospitable to women. He opened submarines to women in 2010, and in 2015, he tripled maternity leave to lower the number of women dropping out of the Navy. He also has advocated to open all combat roles to women and bashed Marine Corps leadership for submitting an exemption recommending otherwise. Despite a Marine Corps study showing that mixed-gender units vastly underperformed relative to male-only units, Mabus insisted first that the study was biased, and second said that even if the study were solid, at least some women would be able to make the cut, so opening all combat roles to women was the right step to take.
 
For Mabus, changing job titles is clearly the next step to making women feel more comfortable.

No title modifications are yet final, but in the next few weeks, Mabus will deliver formal recommendations.

“There may be a few iconic titles you are not going to change because they are so deeply rooted and have been there for so long that they don’t denote gender,” Mabus told The New York Times.

His singular obsession with increasing diversity in the military has led GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter to call for his resignation.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/04/navy-bureaucracy-has-no-idea-how-to-make-job-title-yeoman-gender-neutral/#ixzz454BJnvrm

no need to change the name

The Yeoman on Star Trek were mostly women and no one cared

[GigantorX]

Some whacked out priorities right there.

Navy Bureaucracy Has No Idea How To Make Job Title ‘Yeoman’ Gender-Neutral
JONAH BENNETT
Reporter
04/04/2016

The Navy is hell-bent on adjusting job titles to suit gender equality, but the bureaucracy is stumped on changing the clerical position of “yeoman” and has mulled over alternatives like “yeo-person” and “yeo-specialist” as replacements.

But up to this point, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Michael D. Stevens has rejected all these new alternatives to the administrative position of yeoman, The New York Times reports.

As part of the effort to integrate women into all combat roles, the Navy has pushed to make job titles with the word “man” more gender neutral, preferring titles like “technician” and “specialist” over “rifleman,” “mineman,” and “assault man.”

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been at the forefront of making the service more hospitable to women. He opened submarines to women in 2010, and in 2015, he tripled maternity leave to lower the number of women dropping out of the Navy. He also has advocated to open all combat roles to women and bashed Marine Corps leadership for submitting an exemption recommending otherwise. Despite a Marine Corps study showing that mixed-gender units vastly underperformed relative to male-only units, Mabus insisted first that the study was biased, and second said that even if the study were solid, at least some women would be able to make the cut, so opening all combat roles to women was the right step to take.
 
For Mabus, changing job titles is clearly the next step to making women feel more comfortable.

No title modifications are yet final, but in the next few weeks, Mabus will deliver formal recommendations.

“There may be a few iconic titles you are not going to change because they are so deeply rooted and have been there for so long that they don’t denote gender,” Mabus told The New York Times.

His singular obsession with increasing diversity in the military has led GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter to call for his resignation.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/04/navy-bureaucracy-has-no-idea-how-to-make-job-title-yeoman-gender-neutral/#ixzz454BJnvrm

Absolute insanity.

[headhuntersix]

NAVSEC is a piece of shit...

[SOMEPARTS]

This stuff is so retarded. Explains why they need more budget - to make all this new infrastructure for the sake of gender.

[calfzilla]

Newsflash, men and women are different and should be treated as such within reason.