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Security office or you as a supervisor bring this to the attention of the security people then they refer him to a mental health review and that for several career fields is a career ending event. >> what he seemed to be saying, there was an interesting sort of not representing everything about aaron alexis, because by doing that, it would be a career ender. so that was part of the problem here. what do you think of that? >> the toll of folks who are labeling with psychiatric problems right now ...

>> but i want to get back to this issue of stigma because i wonder if this has some relevance here. listen for a second to our own cnn military analyst colonel francona. >> if you as a security officer or you as a supervisor bring this to the attention of the security people, then they refer him to a mental health review. and that for several career fields is a career-ending event. >> what he seemed to be saying, dr. welner, is there may have been this interest in not representing everything abo...

Alerted the navy. his access was still not revoked. >> this is a problem. this has been an ongoing thing for years. anytime you talk about mental health, that always raises flags and cautions. because if you as a security officer, you as a supervisor bring this to the attention of the security people, then they refer him to a mental health review and that for several career fields is a career-ending event. if youre an intelligence officer, your career pretty much is over as soon as the mental he...

Of 238,000 position closed, including entire career fields, and some training schools that dont allow women in, its a disservice to say to somebody coming back with a purple heart who has been injured in combat in the service of our country, to say were not going to officially recognize that you were doing combat duty and that women have the capacity to compete for these positions. >> briefly, in the time we have left, has the court taken the case? do you have standing? what is the next course l...

Degrees. >> right. >> but the flip side of that is more women are not going into areas like politics and corporate management. why? >> and even the ones that are going in are getting stalled in terms of the upward trajectory of their career. they might be entering at the same point with some careers but dont have the national networks that men have once again to these careers so we still have 83% or 84% leadership in careers like politics and corporate management, those numbers arent getting bet...

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