Research Catalog

Title

A new look at gender and minority differences in officer career progression in the military / Beth J. Asch, Trey Miller, Alessandro Malchiodi.

Author

Asch, Beth J.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Trey.
• Malchiodi, Alessandro.
• Malchiodi, Andrea.
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)

Description

xvii, 52 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

Data and methods -- Minority and gender differences in career progression -- Female officer career progression in restricted occupations xvi -- Unanswered questions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Earlier RAND study -- Changes since the earlier RAND study -- Organization of this report -- Overview of data and approach -- Data -- Defining retention and promotion milestones -- Approach for estimating differences and for defining key variables -- Approach for estimating the probability that officers progress through several -- Milestones -- Defining race and ethnicity -- Identifying occupations partially closed to women officers -- Control variables -- Results on minority and gender differences in career progression -- Conditional differences in achieving career milestones -- Likelihood of achieving early and later career milestones -- Results on female officer career progression differences in restricted -- Occupations -- Summary and conclusions -- Comparison of results with earlier rand study -- New results for the later career -- Career progression in occupations partially closed to women -- Unanswered questions -- Appendix A: Detailed description of data and methods and regression results -- Officer cohort files and variable definitions -- Control variables by race/ethnicity and gender -- Regression results.

Series Statement

Technical report ; TR-1159-OSD

Uniform Title

Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-1159-OSD.

Subject

• United States > Minorities
• United States > Officers
• United States > Women

Note

• "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
• "National Defense Research Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in PDF.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Earlier RAND study -- Changes since the earlier RAND study -- Organization of this report -- Overview of data and approach -- Data -- Defining retention and promotion milestones -- Approach for estimating differences and for defining key variables -- Approach for estimating the probability that officers progress through several -- Milestones -- Defining race and ethnicity -- Identifying occupations partially closed to women officers -- Control variables -- Results on minority and gender differences in career progression -- Conditional differences in achieving career milestones -- Likelihood of achieving early and later career milestones -- Results on female officer career progression differences in restricted -- Occupations -- Summary and conclusions -- Comparison of results with earlier rand study -- New results for the later career -- Career progression in occupations partially closed to women.

ISBN

• 9780833059376 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0833059378 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012017974

OCLC

793421824

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library