Women Vets: An Underserved Population

Minnis spoke at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) conference, held in Baltimore MD in March 2014, on how veterans can make career transitions from higher education to civilian work and how student affairs professionals can help support those students making the tra...

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Published inWomen in higher education Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 2
Main Author Santovec, Mary Lou
Format Journal Article Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2015
Subjects
Anthologies
Armed forces
Career Change
Career Development
Careers
College campuses
Educational Technology
Employment
Females
Health facilities
Higher education
Males
Military deployment
Population
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Schools
Sex crimes
Stereotypes
Students
Trauma
Unemployment
Veterans
War
Womens Studies
United States > US
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Summary:Minnis spoke at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) conference, held in Baltimore MD in March 2014, on how veterans can make career transitions from higher education to civilian work and how student affairs professionals can help support those students making the transition. [...]recently, women's active-duty jobs weren't labeled as "combat" despite having boots on the ground and carrying a weapon or working on a ship. Many female veterans don't want to meet with, much less hang out with, their male peers, especially the women who were victims of sexual abuse or violence.
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ArticleID:WHE20149
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ObjectType-Feature-1
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ISSN:1060-8303
2331-5466
DOI:10.1002/whe.20149