Women in the Royal Air Force: Gender, Sexuality and Contemporary Britain

在过去的100年里，妇女在军队中发挥积极作用的人数呈指数级增长。作为英国最年轻的军种，英国皇家空军（皇家空军）定期经历这些变化和连续性的问题。2018年，军队中的所有战斗角色都对女性新兵开放，这反映了更广泛的军事社区对规范性性别期望和障碍的态度正在发生变化。在过去的20年里，平等、多样性和包容性工作的扩大使英国各地生活的许多不平等和不公平的经历浮出水面。这项研究旨在通过对妇女的经历采取广泛的方法，并试图了解这对边缘化或少数群体的妇女来说可能是不同的或相同的，从而在皇家空军内部解决这一问题。

The involvement of women in active roles within the military has increased exponentiallyover the last 100 years. As the youngest service in the UK, the RAF (Royal Air Force) hasexperienced these issues of change and continuity at regular intervals. In 2018 all combatroles in the military became open for female training recruits, reflecting a changing attitudetowards normative gender expectations and barriers within wider military communities. Theexpansion of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion work over the last 20 years has surfaced themany inequalities and inequitable experiences that are lived throughout the UK. Thisresearch seeks to address this within the RAF by taking a broad approach to the experienceof women and seeking to understand how this might be different, or the same, for womenfrom marginalized or minoritized communities.