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ACTIVE COMPONENT OFFICERS

Marital Status. 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 nearly three-quarters of male officers were married, only 51 percent of women officers had a spouse. Furthermore, whereas male officers were approximately as likely as their civilian counterparts (college graduates in the workforce 21 to 49 years of age) to be married, female officers were substantially 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 2004 Married Active Component Officer Corps and Enlisted Personnel, by Gender (Percent)
Gender
Officers
Enlisted
Males
71.4
50.9
Females
50.9
43.0
Total
68.1
49.8
Also see Appendix Table B-32 (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 nearly seven 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 and deployment, in addition to affecting Servicemembers’ satisfaction with military life.

Table 4.12. FY 2004 Active Component Officers Who Were Married, and in Dual-Service Marriages, by Gender and Service
(Number and Percent)
   
Married
Married Who Were In
Dual-Service Marriages
Gender
End-Strength
Number
Percent
Number*
Percent
ARMY
Male
57,208
39,806
69.6
2,468
6.2
Female
11,426
5,691
49.8
2,629
46.2
Total
68,634
45,497
66.3
5,097
11.2
NAVY
Male
44,677
31,203
69.8
1,112
3.6
Female
8,030
3,765
46.9
1,283
34.1
Total
52,707
34,968
66.3
2,395
6.8
MARINE CORPS
Male
15,778
11,173
70.8
450
4.0
Female
964
396
41.1
273
68.9
Total
16,742
11,569
69.1
723
6.2
AIR FORCE
Male
60,685
45,083
74.3
4,426
9.8
Female
13,619
7,482
54.9
3,500
46.8
Total
74,304
52,565
70.7
7,926
15.1
DoD
Male
178,348
127,265
71.4
8,456
6.6
Female
34,039
17,334
50.9
7,685
44.3
Total
212,387
144,599
68.1
16,141
11.2
* There are some differences between the number of males and females reporting dual-service marriages.

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