About a third of female service members say they've experienced sexual harassment, and minorities and women are underrepresented in leadership, the inspector general finds.
and eliminate it from the force. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, earlier this year, ordered military leaders to spend a day talking to their troops about extremism in the ranks, after a number of former and current military members took part in the assault on the U.S. Capitol in January.
In the latest study, about half of all female respondents said maintaining work-life balance and taking care of family commitments adversely affect them, while only 18 percent of men responding to the survey shared that view. Lt. Gen. Sami Said, the inspector general, told reporters that some of the largest gaps are in operational jobs, which include pilots and other combat-related posts. As an example, in 2020, nearly 84 percent of the pilots in the active duty Air Force were white and more than 92 percent were male. In contrast, 7.7 percent were female, 3 percent were Latino, 2.7 percent were Asian American, 2 percent were Black, 0.5 percent were Native American and 0.3 percent were Pacific Islander.
In addition, the report found that Native Americans were 113 percent more likely to face a court-martial than their White peers, and that they and Latino Air Force members were 33 percent more likely to face criminal investigations.
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