New Zealand typically scores well on most gender equalityGender equality indices, and its Air Force and Navy have enjoyed marked increases in the number of womenWomen in uniform working for those organizations. However, the New Zealand ArmyNew Zealand Army has continued to struggle to recruit and retain womenWomen in recent years despite a range of efforts to improve gender ratiosGender ratios. The numbers of womenWomen in the Army have remained low in that they typically comprise 12–15% of the service. This conundrum, ongoing low numbers of womenWomen in New Zealand ArmyNew Zealand Army, prompted the authors to initiate a new project in 2019: Rebalancing New Zealand ArmyNew Zealand Army. This chapter describes previous research findings about Army efforts to improve gender ratiosGender ratios before outlining how this latest project seeks to identify how genderGender acts to constrain or enable personnel to engage effectively with the institution.

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The Rebalancing Army Project: Navigating Research into Gender Issues in the New Zealand Army

  • Amy Brosnan,
  • Bethan Greener,
  • Nina Harding,
  • Kate V. Lewis,
  • Megan MacKenzie

摘要

New Zealand typically scores well on most gender equalityGender equality indices, and its Air Force and Navy have enjoyed marked increases in the number of womenWomen in uniform working for those organizations. However, the New Zealand ArmyNew Zealand Army has continued to struggle to recruit and retain womenWomen in recent years despite a range of efforts to improve gender ratiosGender ratios. The numbers of womenWomen in the Army have remained low in that they typically comprise 12–15% of the service. This conundrum, ongoing low numbers of womenWomen in New Zealand ArmyNew Zealand Army, prompted the authors to initiate a new project in 2019: Rebalancing New Zealand ArmyNew Zealand Army. This chapter describes previous research findings about Army efforts to improve gender ratiosGender ratios before outlining how this latest project seeks to identify how genderGender acts to constrain or enable personnel to engage effectively with the institution.