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Marital Status

As indicated in Table 4.11, officers were more likely to be married than the enlisted personnel they lead. It is interesting to note that for officers as well as enlisted personnel, women on active duty were less likely than men to be married. In fact, while nearly three-quarters of male officers were married, only 51 percent of women officers had a spouse. Furthermore, whereas male officers were approximately as likely as their civilian counterparts (college graduates in the workforce 21 to 49 years of age) to be married, female officers were substantially less likely to be married. This suggests that women in the officer corps are more divergent from their civilian peers regarding family patterns.

Though female officers are less likely to be married than male officers, among those who are married women are considerably more likely to be a partner in a dual-military marriage. As can be seen from Table 4.12, married female officers are nearly 7.5 times more likely than married male officers to have a spouse in uniform. This trend is more than a curiosity, as dual-service marriages pose unique challenges to assignment and deployment, in addition to affecting Servicemembers’ satisfaction with military life.

Table 4.11. FY 2002 Married Active Component Officer Corps and Enlisted Personnel, by Gender (Percent)

Gender

Officers

Enlisted

Males

71.1

49.7

Females

50.9

41.5

   Total

68.0

48.5

Also see Appendix Table B-33 (Marital Status by Service).

 

Table 4.12. FY 2002 Active Component Officers Who Were Married, and in Dual-Service Marriages, by Gender and Service (Number and Percent)
Gender
End-Strength
Married
Married Who Were In Dual-Service Marriages
Number
Percent
Number*
Percent
ARMY
Male
55,914
40,601
72.6
2,490
6.1
Female
10,669
5,593
52.4
2,549
45.6
Total
66,583
46,194
69.4
5,039
10.9
Male
44,864
29,300
65.3
695
2.4
Female
8,097
3,577
44.2
827
23.1
Total
52,961
32,877
62.1
1,521
4.6
MARINE CORPS
Male
15,515
10,848
69.9
401
3.7
Female
887
363
40.9
247
68.0
Total
16,402
11,211
68.3
648
5.8
AIR FORCE
Male
58,901
43,817
74.4
2,830
6.5
Female
12,786
6,992
54.7
2,839
40.6
Total
71,687
50,809
70.9
5,669
11.2
DoD
Male
175,194
124,566
71.1
6,415
5.1
Female
32,439
16,525
50.9
6,462
39.1
Total
207,633
141,091
68.0
12,877
9.1

* There are some differences between the number of males and females reporting dual-service marriages.

 

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