“GIRLS NEXT DOOR” — WOMEN AS EMOTIONAL LABORERS ON THE FRONT LINES

A BETTER PEACE presents "'Girls Next Door': Women as Emotional Laborers on the Front Lines." Kara Dixon Vuic explores the history of U.S. deployment of mostly middle-class single women to the front lines to help sustain morale of the troops, remind them of the home front, and hopefully prevent them from engaging in unprofessional conduct, especially among the local populations. Such employment of women began in World War I and carried on through Vietnam. This would change with the All-Volunteer Force and efforts at gender integration, with implications for work relations between male and female service members. What are the implications for today's senior leaders? WAR ROOM Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline E. Whitt moderates.