الاتجاهات نحو عمل المرأة في المجال العسكري

Abstract EN

The aim of the study was to explore the factor structure of the attitude towards women’s work in the military scale.

it was also aimed to investigate there is a difference according to gender and place of work variables.

The sample consists of 172 males and females (108 males and 64 females) selected from different army and police units (85 individual from the army and 87 from the police) in the United Arab Emirates.

They were asked to complete a scale consisted of 98 negative and positive items measuring attitudes towards women’s work in the military force.

The results of the factor analysis suggest that the scale is composed of five dimensions including society views about women’s work in the military, women work in the military, other roles of women in the society, the role of the women in the military force, the financial aspect of women’s work in the military.

Results also showed a negative attitude towards women’s work in the military in all dimensions by the sample of the study.

Moreover, there was a gender difference in favor of males.

The study also showed a two way interaction (male- army) favoring males.

Finally the results were discussed in terms of the previous literature.

Several recommendation were presented.