Freedom of expression. And that legacy continues after she left. So she certainly made her mark on the world. And certainly showed that shes unflappable in the face of criticism and unflappable in the face of an attempt to undo all of the work that that fine organization is doing. For me, shes a great role model of how we conduct ourselves as women, in the face of what can be a little bit of a backslide from time to time. Its nice to have people we can see who embody strength and thick skin and certainly youve talked to you wrote in your book about how much you have how far youve come in this regard in in not letting the turkeys get you down. Your personal story makes the case for Public Policy that supports women, how do we get men to be allies in the fight to fight to further these policies when they dont experience these things personally . How do we make men care about feminism . Is we share our stories. Again not to be a broken record, but humanizing these issues just as i for exa
Things will kind of go not go away but kind of allow it . Like she said, when she was in the class with the lieutenants, they wasnt worried about oh, youre female. Maybe its more of a generation, as you said, generations before. I think i graduated the same year as you. I saw Different Things and probably the lieutenants coming out today. Thats my question. And is there research being done with maybe a generational gap as far as cultural as we change our culture . I definitely believe it is leaderships ability to change that and make a difference. Thats a great question. Anybody want to take a crack at it . Anything you researched about the generational question . I think there is research that indicates there is sort of a cultural gap and certainly with dont ask dont tell theres the same kind of indications. The problem is often that leadership is part of the generation that may be stuck in the old culture were talking about. So it may take some time for cultural change. So yeah. I ce
Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409 women and 379 female marines against and what they found from this combat proxy test was that about well not about, but 66 of the very good performers were men and 34 were women, and then the highest performing categories, it was 92 were men and 8 were women. So this initial Screening Test that they developed showed that there was certainly a percentage of women that fell into the good and the ve