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.
Glad things are so good that they have nothing more important to worry about.
I remember a gay bar on a TV show called “The Manhole”
Change it to, Yo! Man! Label anyone that complains as being a “rasis”.
The truly pitiful thing is that no such realization will ever occur.
You win the Innerneks!!
In World War 2 women were properly organized into all woman services and given tasks within their physical capabilities.
Copy the Navy Seals: rename everything with cute cuddly animal names.
The Pink Fluffy Unicorns dancing on rainbows - say that three times real fast.
Yeoman Rand.
How about “Yo”?
I know what you are saying... It is sad...
Or Yoho.
“Yeo”
Boatswomain
Yeo!
Or, as used eons ago - Yeomanette.
How about clerk typist?
Yoe-mama?
Back in the 70s one of my seamen was a very attractive young woman. My LCU did not have separate quarters or heads. She slept on the top center rack. Every time I went down for coffee I had to look at her in her sexy purple nightie. I finally had my Chief Engineer rig a coffee pot in the conn.
“Yeoman” is a word that goes all the way back to Medieval England. Yeoman were a class of free born land owners and were the bed rock of English armies. It is an honorable appellation. Mabus is a prancing deviant IMHO.
I’m pulling for “Yeoster”
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