Posted on 04/04/2016 6:13:31 PM PDT by markomalley
The Navy is hell-bent on adjusting job titles to suit gender equality, but the bureaucracy is stumped on changing the clerical position of “yeoman” and has mulled over alternatives like “yeo-person” and “yeo-specialist” as replacements.
But up to this point, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Michael D. Stevens has rejected all these new alternatives to the administrative position of yeoman, The New York Times reports.
As part of the effort to integrate women into all combat roles, the Navy has pushed to make job titles with the word “man” more gender neutral, preferring titles like “technician” and “specialist” over “rifleman,” “mineman” and “assault man.”
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been at the forefront of making the service more hospitable to women. He opened submarines to women in 2010, and in 2015, he tripled maternity leave to lower the number of women dropping out of the Navy. He also has advocated to open all combat roles to women and bashed Marine Corps leadership for submitting an exemption recommending otherwise. Despite a Marine Corps study showing that mixed-gender units vastly underperformed relative to male-only units, Mabus insisted first that the study was biased, and second said that even if the study were solid, at least some women would be able to make the cut, so opening all combat roles to women was the right step to take.
For Mabus, changing job titles is clearly the next step to making women feel more comfortable.
No title modifications are yet final, but in the next few weeks, Mabus will deliver formal recommendations.
“There may be a few iconic titles you are not going to change because they are so deeply rooted and have been there for so long that they don’t denote gender,” Mabus told The New York Times.
His singular obsession with increasing diversity in the military has led GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter to call for his resignation.
I have a thought...........How about leaving the US NAVY alone and stop queerifying it!
I vote for Yobitch
Yeor? Yeomaybe?
he tripled maternity leave...
quadruple it!!!
quintuple it!!!
SIX YEARS off if you have a baby!!
paid of course.
Yeomama?
I’m betting it will be Yeoperson within the year.
Are we now going to call a Marine Corps rifleman a rifle-tech?
To me that would be the guy back “in the rear with the gear” who does other than field repair.
How about rifle-person or rifle-shooter?
Or how about splittail with a weapon?
Some people have made Woman gender neutral — womon.
Yeomon
It’s stupid. Let’s do it.
IBPOYR (In before picture of Yeoman Rand).
“The Navy is hell-bent on adjusting job titles to suit gender equality, but the bureaucracy is stumped on changing the clerical position of “yeoman””
This is transphobic.
They think it’s wrong to call women “man”.
That’s transphobic.
The PC crazies undercut their own positions and philosophies.
Yo, Ardian!
As a Navy vet I say bulls**t. Preventative Maintenance Systems PMS has to be dumped as well. God help us.
Yeofolk?
That one made me explosively project whiskey on my keyboard.
Had to clean it up before this reply.
LOL
Bunch of yo-yo’s.
Yeoman
yeodyke
yeoqueer
yeobabe
Flip a personhole cover...heads it’s male tails it’s female. Not to mean that women and tail is related...and ESPECIALLY not to insinuate head and male is related...or not.
How did we take Normandy, Okinawa and Iwo Jima?
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