The GIFT Model: Implications for Women's Bunks and Accession Policy

This report poses the question of how many women's bunks are needed in the larger context of enlisted personnel management policies. The relevant aspects of personnel policy are the number of female accession, their occupational distribution, and women's continuation behavior. In addition, the decision on the number of women's bunks is connected to possible policy goals in the areas of gender-neutral recruiting, female leadership afloat, equal access to assignments, and the related issue of gender differences in shipboard duty.