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Equal Opportunity: DOD Studies on Discrimination in the Military

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 7, 1995
Report No. NSIAD-95-103
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Summary:

Defense Department (DOD) policy holds that discrimination on the basis of such factors as race or gender is counterproductive to combat readiness. In response to congressional concern that inequality of treatment and opportunity are a problem in the military, GAO undertook three reviews of equal opportunity issues. This report identifies DOD studies done during the past 20 years on discrimination in the military. GAO summarizes the studies and determines the status of any recommendations. The other two reviews, to be issued separately, are studying the services' (1) systems for handling discrimination complaints from active-duty service members and (2) efforts to detect and resolve racial and gender disparities in personnel decisions.

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