Standing Up To Be Counted: Female Military Personnel and Online Mentoring

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dc.contributorAllegheny Collegeen
dc.contributorVirginia Tech. Department of English. Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Societyen
dc.contributorVirginia Tech. Veterans Studies Groupen
dc.contributorWeimerskirch, Barbaraen
dc.contributor.authorHart, D. Alexisen
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-10T03:25:15Zen
dc.date.available2015-08-10T03:25:15Zen
dc.date.copyright2014en
dc.date.issued2014-04en
dc.description.abstractWomen working in male-dominated fields such as science and the military often encounter challenges fitting into their workplace communities, feeling themselves to be cast as less intelligent and less powerful (physically and with regard to leadership). The problems connected to gendered stereotypes do not end once female military personnel leave the military service. As a result, female veterans often downplay their skills and accomplishments and do not identify themselves with the veteran moniker. Several online communities for military women have emerged that strategically use Web 2.0 technologies to enable female military personnel to mentor each other in relatively safe electronic spaces to support the professional and personal growth of participants and to articulate personally and publicly the reasons why women, too, “count” as veterans.en
dc.description.notesThe Second Conference on Veterans in Society: Humanizing the Discourse was held at the Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, VA from April 27-28, 2014en
dc.description.notesPresented during Panel Session 3A: "How to Tell a Woman’s War Story: Gender, Service, Support, and Storytelling", moderated by Barbara Weimerskirchen
dc.description.notesIncludes conference paper and presentation slidesen
dc.format.extent4 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationHart, D. A. (2014, April). Standing up to be counted: Female military personnel and online mentoring. In H. Nobles (Ed.) Proceedings of the Second Conference on Veterans in Society: Humanizing the Discourse (pp. 23-26). Roanoke, VA: Virginia Tech.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/56359en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.ispartofSecond Conference on Veterans in Society: Humanizing the Discourseen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderHart, D. Alexisen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectFemale veteransen
dc.subjectGender stereotypesen
dc.subjectMentoringen
dc.subjectOnline communitiesen
dc.subjectViSen
dc.subjectVeterans in Societyen
dc.titleStanding Up To Be Counted: Female Military Personnel and Online Mentoringen
dc.typePresentationen
dc.typeConference proceedingen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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