By the Numbers: 11 April 2022
12%
The percentage of Army recruiters who are women, according to Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, commander of U.S. Army Recruiting Command, in an article in Task & Purpose -- Less than a quarter of Army recruiters are women. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Having women serve as recruiters is “absolutely critical,” he said, but part of the reason for the low numbers is due to how many women are across the Army — and how few of them are available to be recruiters.
“Before we can place women noncommissioned officers in recruiting, we’ve got to have the population,” Vereen said.
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The percentage of female recruiters falls in line with the overall percentage of women in the Army. Women accounted for roughly 15% of soldiers in 2021, according to a Defense Department fact sheet. That is around the same percentage as was reported for fiscal year 2018 by the Government Accountability Office, which found women made up 15.1% of the Army.
12%
The percentage of Army recruiters who are women, according to Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, commander of U.S. Army Recruiting Command, in an article in Task & Purpose -- Less than a quarter of Army recruiters are women. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Having women serve as recruiters is “absolutely critical,” he said, but part of the reason for the low numbers is due to how many women are across the Army — and how few of them are available to be recruiters.
“Before we can place women noncommissioned officers in recruiting, we’ve got to have the population,” Vereen said.
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The percentage of female recruiters falls in line with the overall percentage of women in the Army. Women accounted for roughly 15% of soldiers in 2021, according to a Defense Department fact sheet. That is around the same percentage as was reported for fiscal year 2018 by the Government Accountability Office, which found women made up 15.1% of the Army.