ACTIVE COMPONENT OFFICERS
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.
Table
4.11. FY 2004 Married Active Component Officer Corps and Enlisted
Personnel, by Gender (Percent) |
Gender |
Officers |
Enlisted |
Males |
71.4 |
50.9 |
Females |
50.9 |
43.0 |
Total |
68.1 |
49.8 |
|
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 seven 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
4.12. FY 2004 Active Component Officers Who Were Married, and in Dual-Service
Marriages, by Gender and Service
(Number and Percent) |
|
|
Married |
Married
Who Were In
Dual-Service Marriages |
Gender |
End-Strength |
Number |
Percent |
Number* |
Percent |
ARMY |
Male |
57,208 |
39,806 |
69.6 |
2,468 |
6.2 |
Female |
11,426 |
5,691 |
49.8 |
2,629 |
46.2 |
Total |
68,634 |
45,497 |
66.3 |
5,097 |
11.2 |
NAVY |
Male |
44,677 |
31,203 |
69.8 |
1,112 |
3.6 |
Female |
8,030 |
3,765 |
46.9 |
1,283 |
34.1 |
Total |
52,707 |
34,968 |
66.3 |
2,395 |
6.8 |
MARINE
CORPS |
Male |
15,778 |
11,173 |
70.8 |
450 |
4.0 |
Female |
964 |
396 |
41.1 |
273 |
68.9 |
Total |
16,742 |
11,569 |
69.1 |
723 |
6.2 |
AIR
FORCE |
Male |
60,685 |
45,083 |
74.3 |
4,426 |
9.8 |
Female |
13,619 |
7,482 |
54.9 |
3,500 |
46.8 |
Total |
74,304 |
52,565 |
70.7 |
7,926 |
15.1 |
DoD |
Male |
178,348 |
127,265 |
71.4 |
8,456 |
6.6 |
Female |
34,039 |
17,334 |
50.9 |
7,685 |
44.3 |
Total |
212,387 |
144,599 |
68.1 |
16,141 |
11.2 |
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