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As indicated in Table 4.11, officers were more likely to be married than the enlisted personnel they lead. It is
interesting to note that for officers as well as enlisted personnel, women on active duty were less likely than men to be married. In fact, while three-quarters of male officers were married, only 55 percent of
women officers had a spouse. Furthermore, whereas male officers were more likely than their civilian counterparts (college graduates in the workforce 21 to 49 years of age) to be married, female officers were less
likely to be married. This suggests that women in the officer corps are more divergent from their civilian peers regarding family patterns.
| Table 4.11. FY 1997 Married Active Component Officer Corps and Enlisted
Personnel, by Gender (Percent) |
| Gender |
Officers |
Enlisted |
| Males |
74.9 |
56.9 |
| Females |
54.7 |
45.9 |
| Total |
72.1 |
55.4 |
| Also see Appendix
Table B-33 (Marital Status by Service). |
Though female officers are less likely to be married than male officers, among those who
are married women are considerably more likely to be a partner in a dual-military marriage. As can be seen from Table 4.12, married female officers are more than eight times more
likely than married male officers to have a spouse in uniform. This trend is more than a curiosity, as dual-service marriages pose unique challenges to assignment, deployment, and
overall readiness in addition to affecting Servicemembers' satisfaction with military life.
| Table 4.12. FY 1997 Active Component Officers Who Were Married, and in
Dual-Service Marriages, By Gender and Service (Number and Percent) |
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Married |
Married Who Were In Dual-Service Marriages |
| Gender |
End-Strength |
Number |
Percent |
Number* |
Percent |
| ARMY |
| Male |
58,334 |
42,916 |
73.6 |
2,474 |
5.8 |
| Female |
9,660 |
5,265 |
54.5 |
2,489 |
47.3 |
| Total
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67,994 |
48,181 |
70.9 |
4,963 |
10.3 |
| NAVY |
| Male |
46,678 |
34,366 |
73.6 |
713 |
2.1 |
| Female |
7,704 |
4,077 |
52.9 |
928 |
22.8 |
| Total
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54,382 |
38,443 |
70.7 |
1,641 |
4.3 |
| MARINE CORPS |
| Male |
15,334 |
10,795 |
70.4 |
315 |
2.9 |
| Female |
668 |
293 |
43.9 |
198 |
67.6 |
| Total
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16,002 |
11,088 |
69.3 |
513 |
4.6 |
| AIR FORCE |
| Male |
61,975 |
48,504 |
78.3 |
2,481 |
5.1 |
| Female |
12,009 |
6,809 |
56.7 |
2,598 |
38.2 |
| Total
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73,984 |
55,313 |
74.8 |
5,079 |
9.2 |
| DoD |
| Male |
182,321 |
136,581 |
74.9 |
5,983 |
4.4 |
| Female |
30,041 |
16,444 |
54.7 |
6,213 |
37.8 |
| Total
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212,362 |
153,025 |
72.1 |
12,196 |
8.0 |
| * There are some differences between the number of males and females reporting dual-service marriages. |
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