A new look at gender and minority differences in officer career progression in the military / Beth J. Asch, Trey Miller, Alessandro Malchiodi.

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, c2012.

xvii, 52 p. ; 28 cm.

Data and methods -- Minority and gender differences in career progression -- Female officer career progression in restricted occupations xvi -- Unanswered questions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Earlier RAND study -- Changes since the earlier RAND study -- Organization of this report -- Overview of data and approach -- Data -- Defining retention and promotion milestones -- Approach for estimating differences and for defining key variables -- Approach for estimating the probability that officers progress through several -- Milestones -- Defining race and ethnicity -- Identifying occupations partially closed to women officers -- Control variables -- Results on minority and gender differences in career progression -- Conditional differences in achieving career milestones -- Likelihood of achieving early and later career milestones -- Results on female officer career progression differences in restricted -- Occupations -- Summary and conclusions -- Comparison of results with earlier rand study -- New results for the later career -- Career progression in occupations partially closed to women -- Unanswered questions -- Appendix A: Detailed description of data and methods and regression results -- Officer cohort files and variable definitions -- Control variables by race/ethnicity and gender -- Regression results.

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English

November 28, 2012

Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52).