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.
Just call them Yo’s?
Yo Ho Yo Ho a Pirate’s Life for Me!
Yo m___r f___er!
Those are things we need leadership for - not worrying about whether Yeoman 1st Class Cindy Jones would rather be called Administrative specialist Jones. And what have we done with Quartermaster now that Harvard has decided that master is a sexist title? Navigator's mate is even worse except maybe for the Naviguessor.
It was all well enough and could have been left alone.
There are centuries behind these customs and traditions and the sea-service has honored them for good reason. Now its a way of life gone with the wind.
That unfortunately is a term already in common usage.
So what did they decide to do with Sonar Girls?
Yeo cats, yeo yeo
Yeo chooch, way to go
You is dead, but you don’t know
Yeo let’s carve, hey where’s the blow?
Get your fiddle, get your bow
Play some footballs on your hole
Watch your watch, play a little flat
Make the session go overtime, that’s where it’s at
You're close. It obviously should be 'Yeoper".The members of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UPers) would be proud.
Yeoperson. I guess it would work. Or Yeoyeo. (”He stood up for us like a yeoyeo.”)
Yeo yo.
Sonar Girls? That brings back a sea story! We had just gotten back from a SpecOp and the crew from the Naval Undersea Center was installing a special Sonar system for us to test. The leader of the NUC team had brought one of his female, and I mean very female, electronics technicians with them. The Captain had just told the XO that he was going to his cabin to finish some reports before going home. He comes out of the Wardroom and turns to go up the ladder to his stateroom. There, straddling the ladder is this female technician fishing a cable in the overhead. The Captain takes one look at that incredibly well filled jumpsuit, turns to the XO and says, “On second thought, I think I will go home and see Missy.”
Yoclerk
This just reminded me to go ask the views of an acquaintance who is a submariner between command tours.
I guess that’s more important than fixing the latest generation of crap ships
I can’t remember the Admiral’s name, but this was in 1996 when I was a civilian at the Naval Space Command, he was commenting on the problem of women of surface ships, and said, “What do you get when you put normal twenty year old men and women in close proximity for months? You get babies!”
This is too easy: Yeoman and Yeomyn. Both are pronounced identically :p
/s and all other appropriate tags.
That’s just the beginning. Female aviators are to be called Naval Aviatrixes (1310/1315)and female NFOs will be called Naval Flight Officettes (1320/1325). Honest.
Yewoman?
I knew the CO of a subtender pretty well. His biggest problem was reshuffling the watch-bill because of all the pregnancies that happened just before deployments. Now these were not real deployments, which sub-tenders didn’t do much of but a two week venture to sea to break loose from the coffee cups that settled under the keel and work the rust out of all the bearings and reduction gears.
How about YeoAdrian?
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