Our thanks to William for this. An extract:
The plan has been signed off by Defence Secretary Michael Fallon and Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter.
They hope the trial will appeal to female personnel [my emphasis] who consider military life with its rigid hours and lengthy overseas commitments to be entirely incompatible with raising a family. [S0 why did they join up in the first place?]
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said last night: ‘This pilot is part of a modern offer to help Britain’s world-class Armed Forces keep the broadest range of people and give them and their families the broadest service opportunities.’
You don’t have to be a genius to realise that ensuring (a) military effectiveneness and efficiency, and (b) the provision of part-time work for female soldiers, are incompatible objectives – and male unemployment has long been higher than female unemployment. Is there no limit to the harm to state institutions (and employable young men) that will be tolerated in pursuit of the goal of generating part-time work for women? Seemingly not.
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The actual work they will be doing, therefore, is that of clerks, possibly gym instructors etc, all of which are more appropriately civilian roles (There are no longer any military hospitals, btw).
Either civilianise the jobs, which means you could put them onto the local market and make the wimmin undergo a competitive recruitment process, i.e. they’ve got to apply etc, and probably get the work done more cheaply or, more appropriately, completely exempt the Armed Forces from equality law.
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‘The actual work they will be doing, therefore, is that of clerks, possibly gym instructors etc … ‘
Not at all. They will be doing work of equal value to men working full-time in difficult, dirty and dangerous situations, and therefore entitled to all the same honours and prestige. Little women strutting about part-time with big guns, with chips on both shoulders, and a delusion the size of Yorkshire should not be regarded as in any way less effective than proper soldiers doing a full-time man’s job.
It’s time we had a feminine form of Walter Mitty, because that’s what women who think they can do anything a man can do are.
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Can just see it. Sign up all these part time females, who then complain about a massive gender pay gap
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Yes I can’t believe the naiveté of this. The process in other public services has gone precisely that way. So either the Army has to stop additional payments for deployments overseas etc. or pay “equivalent” amounts to people at home in offices. There will be expensive bills for consultants to come up with complicated formula’s. Being honest the only reason Councils are still able to mend roads, empty bins, dig graves, tend parks at all is that “migrants” came to do the jobs when they were deemed equivalent to pottering about with forms in offices.
Of course another thing that will happen is that the part time stay safe staff will be less likely to get promotions, having not the range of experience. If you recall this was one of the issues for women being allowed in combat. And here experience shows there will be two “remedies” . One will be to institute paper qualifications that can override experience, so that women can “compete” by gaining the exam/assessment rather than doing the work. The other will be accelerated advancement programmes with women doing short stints in a range of jobs. The former really isn’t “equivalent” and the latter just a load of disruption.
And of course though this is meant to benefit women with children, experience has shown that what constitutes a “family responsibility” is up to the applicant as managers are reluctant to dig into personal circumstances, so it will be far more widespread than just women with children. And of course it would be sex discrimination to apply different standards to a male applicant so it may be the blokes the Top brass appear to be banking on to “suck it up” might also want to stay in blighty.
So if the rest of public services are anything to go by the Military Services will open up a whole trail of stuff that will result in far more inefficiency and greater reliance on a smaller and smaller group of dedicated F/T people.
The Army recruits from poorer countries in the Commonwealth and possibly that may help them plug gaps, in the same way that “migrants” do for public services. I suspect the future will see the British Forces having to “mothball” an awful lot.
I simply can’t believe the “top brass” have thought this through.The processes above are precisely why we have a Police “Service” rather than Police Force.
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At Lossiemouth, one of my former bases, they are running a scheme to allow ex forces to come in and work when they please. I think they are getting desperate for numbers.
http://www.insidemoray.com/ex-raf-encouraged-to-don-the-uniform-and-help-out/
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‘Sign up all these part time females, who then complain about a massive gender pay gap‘.
And the ‘glass ceiling’.
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Much the same things are established in the German Army. Last year it had to withdraw early from a NATO exercise (to demonstrate resolve to Putin and reassure the Baltic states). The reason precisely the cost of “overtime” covering family friendly hours. A clear demonstration of the impracticality and proving the reverse for Putin. One assumes the Russian high command noted with interest that the Army of the largest European Nato nation had to go home three days early!
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for crying out loud, stop excusing women’s unrealism and crazy ideas just because you believe a gentleman should do so. He should not. he was not meant to do things like these. situations like these did not exist when the gentleman code was established.
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If female soldiers are portrayed as equal to male soldiers, how is it then that they can’t defend themselves without outside help from a potential rapist or from sexual harassment by a fellow soldier..
Military is for tough soldiers who defend themselves if necessary and not run and whine to authorities every time something happens that isn’t to their liking. How can we expect such soldiers to perform in line of duty -combat- when they aren’t able to defend themselves even from their own colleagues in time of peace.
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