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.
Yeo?
just wait a minute here now.
Women = Plural for for the ladies.
Woman = Singular for the ladies.
They both have man/men in the words, so why not just leave it alone.
“Yeo-bro”?
“Yeo-Sista”?
Corpsman to Corpsperson
How about “Paper-Pusher” or “Wuss”?
Yeoman specific to men, Meowoman specific to women, “YeoMeow” all inclusive.
Oh come on, even in star trek there’s a female yeoman.
anyway, at least we still have manhole cover.
How about yeo-homo since the military now embraces homosexuals?
This is ridiculous. “Man” in yeoman is an Old English word that means “person”, not “male”; see “woman.”
“...How did we take Normandy, Okinawa and Iwo Jima?...?
By the brave men and women in our armed forces...what? There were no women hitting the beaches? That does not stop the inclusive wording of our new texts!
Yeobot. Pronounced YO-bot.
Like the genderless robot drone they will be.
Yeo-Sammich-maker
Yeo’s?
With a lot of upper body strength, a whole lot of BLOOD, and a lot of DEAD and HORRIBLY MAIMED YOUNG MEN.
How are the queers, feminazis and government going to react when we really have to PAY for real estate in the future?
WHO THEY GONNA BLAME?
Somebody get William Shatner on the phone and have him break the news to Yeoman Rand.
Well, there’s always “Administrative Assistant”. Rating badge to include “Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts!” We can make it work...
We preferred Captain’s Catamite. But then again I was just a Quartermaster.
How about YEOHOE.
AAARR maties, it’s a pirate’s life for me.
As a Yeoman veteran, the hell with this administration, and the wienies that are left in charge. When I served, the CNO was Admiral Zumwalt, and I regularly had to pass on all of the “Z Grams” that he dictated. I had respect for him and the brass. I have a lot less for the ones now, especially John Kirby, former Admiral, who is now the State Department’s Press Spokesman. That lying SOB would have never made it in our Navy! Change our name? Up your ballast a-holes...
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