Females within the Canadian Military Force

Canada is known for its warm hospitality that has offered all its citizens the rights to express themselves in any way. Compared to other unfortunate countries, Canada has offered Canadian women the opportunity and right to choose any occupation of their choice. However, due to social norms, women usually experience struggles, are negatively judged upon by the community and are not easily accepted into occupations that are considered as men-orientated. Due to the social norms present within the Canadian society, they have created barriers within the community of what occupations are accepted for women and what occupations are accepted for men, which creates a major issue of woman acceptance in the Canadian military. Canada has overcome a series of controversial issues regarding gender equality, which has led Canadian society to modernize their views. As society’s views modernized, it brought many positive changes regarding gender social norms throughout the years, such as the acceptance of females to participate in man-identified activities. Although, even after the modernization of historical views within society, women equality in the military force is still a concern today in Canada. As for this, women inequality heavily enforces on the lack of acceptance of women in the military force, the numerous reports of sexual harassment towards who work in the military force, and the possibility of women not gaining a higher rank and position in the Canadian military force compared to Canadian males.

Canadian women have been an essential part of the Canadian community in terms of all political matters. For many decades now, Canada has accepted the women gender to establish their means in society; as this can be in any type of occupatio...

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...itary officer protecting the community rather than a female due to the social norm that only men are courageous and strong individuals; as for the women, they are weak and can easily be frightened in times of danger and emergencies. However, on the other hand, an individual by the name of Tracey Burrows was stated to be one of the first Canadian female bomb technician. By being one of the first Canadian female bomb technician, Burrows was able to prove to society that women do have the ability to participate in occupations that are considered as male-dominate, and not a place for women (Wilson, 2000). Therefore, due to these social norms present within the Canadian community, many controversies are often created within the Canadian military that assault the rights and freedoms of Canadian women from participating in occupations that are considered as male-dominate.