General Resources

• Diversity web sites listed by State Dept

• Ensuring Diversity Is Not Just Another Buzzword, ACSC research paper which examines the definition, benefits, and pitfalls of diversity

• Office of Leadership and Diversity Home Page, U.S. Coast Guard
  • Diversity Management Division

• Lucille Maurer Leadership Library links - James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
  includes many diversity leadership links for African-Americans, Asians, Latinos, and Women

• Population Diversity and the U.S. Army (local copy), Strategic Studies Institute
• On Diversity (local copy), Strategic Studies Institute

• Understanding the Impact of Cultural Diversity on Organizations, ACSC research paper

• Cultural Diversity Lesson Plan (local copy), Ft Benning

Regulations & Guidance

• DoD Directive 1350.2, Department of Defense Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) Program (local copy)
• DoD Directive 1440.1, The DoD Civilian Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program (local copy)

• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  • Laws, Regulations and Policy Guidance

• U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

• Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), includes
  • Senior Executive Equal Opportunity Seminar (SEEOS), which targets all newly selected O-7 general/flag officers (active, Guard, and Reserve) and Senior Executive Service (SES) personnel.
  • Senior Leaders EO Seminar (SLEOS), which presents an orientation on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational aspects of EO. Geared for the strategic decision makers in the DOD.
  • Links to resources

Women in Leadership

• Leadership Effectiveness and Gender: Are There Correlations Between Male and Female Traits Found in Successful Leaders?, ACSC research paper
• Gender Differences and Leadership: A Study, AWC research paper

• Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), Rutgers, "is dedicated to the study of how and why women lead, and to the development of programs that prepare women of all ages to lead effectively"
• Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL)
• Center for Women and Leadership, Loyola University
• catalyst "nonprofit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business and the professions"

• Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
• Institute for Women's Leadership
• Women Unlimited

• Centre for Leadership for Women
• Women's Executive Development Program

Women in Military & Combat

• New Opportunities for Military Women - Effects upon Readiness, Cohesion, and Morale, a RAND report
  • Military Readiness -Women Are Not a Problem, RAND Research Brief summarizing some of the research for above report

• Women in Combat: Iraqi Freedom, resources listed by Air University Library
• Women in Combat, resources listed by Air University Library
• Women in Combat: An Annotated Bibliography, Combined Arms Research Library

• Women in Combat Units - It's Still a Bad Idea, by Simons, in Parameters

• A Soldier Is a Soldier, by Mariner, in Joint Force Quarterly

• Researchers Study post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Women

• Gender Issues: Perceptions of Readiness in Selected Units (local copy), GAO report, May 1999
  "Our survey on the perceptions of readiness of units opened to women since 1993 showed that both men and women had a positive view of their own readiness. Furthermore, most men and women agreed that women either affected readiness no differently from men or affected readiness positively or very positively."

• Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues (local copy), March 1999 report - with Conclusions and Recommendations for each section of the report
  • Statement of Anita K. Blair (local copy), chair of the commission
  • Statement of Thomas Moore (local copy), member of the commission

• Mar 1998 Congressional Testimony of Elaine Donnelly (local copy), President of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent public policy organization -- citing problems with co-ed basic training, referencing the Kassebaum Baker Commission, and countering claims by earlier reports by GAO and the Army Research Institute

• Women in the Military in World War II, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission

Gender Issues & Resources

• Leadership Effectiveness and Gender: Are There Correlations Between Male and Female Traits Found in Successful Leaders?, ACSC research paper
• Gender Differences and Leadership: A Study, AWC research paper

• Mentoring of Women in the USAF, ACSC paper about mentoring of senior female officers and enlisted in today's Air Force
• Mentoring Women and Minority Officers in the US Military, ACSC research paper
• Mentoring in the Military: a Preliminary Study of Gender Differences, report from 1993 (local copy)

• Military Woman Home Page

• PTSD
• Researchers Study post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Women

• Pregnancy and Readiness
• Pregnancy in the Military, bibliography from AU Library
• The Impact of Pregnancy on U.S. Army Readiness, ACSC research paper
• Pregnancy in the U.S. Armed Services and Its Impact on Readiness, ACSC research paper

Minority Issues and Resources

• Mentoring Women and Minority Officers in the US Military, ACSC research paper

• Survey Examines Race Relations in Military - 1997 Armed Forces Equal Opportunity Survey released Nov. 23, 1999
  • White service members have a more positive perception of race relations in the military than minority service members.

• Armed Forces Equal Opportunity Survey, 1996 executive summary

• Career Progression of Minority and Women Officers, 1977-1997

• Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965, Defense Studies Series, Center of Military History

• The Freeman Field Mutiny: A Study in Leadership, ACSC research paper

• African-Americans in the Armed Forces, bibliography by AU Library
• African-Americans in Military History, bibliography by AU Library

• Blacks In The Marine Corps, 401K, 1975 - from the USMC History and Museums Division

• Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation, 558K, 1990, all services from the American Revolution to 1990 - from the SecDef

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