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Abstract：
Women\'s experiences of military service and transition occur within a highly dominant masculinized culture. The vast majority of research on military veterans reflects men\'s experiences and needs. Women veterans\' experiences, and therefore their transition support needs, are largely invisible. This study sought to understand the role and impact of gender in the context of the dominant masculinized culture on women veterans\' experiences of military service and transition to civilian life. In-depth qualitative interviews with 22 Australian women veterans elicited four themes: (1) Fitting in a managing identity with the military; (2) Gender-based challenges in conforming to a masculinized culture-proving worthiness, assimilation, and survival strategies within that culture; (3) Women are valued less than men-consequences for women veterans, including misogyny, sexual harassment and assault, and system failures to recognize women\'s specific health needs and role as mothers; and (4) Separation and transition: being invisible as a woman veteran in the civilian world. Gendered military experiences can have long-term negative impacts on women veterans\' mental and physical health, relationships, and identity due to a pervasive masculinized culture in which they remain largely invisible. This can create significant gender-based barriers to services and support for women veterans during their service, and it can also impede their transition support needs.
摘要：
女性服兵役和过渡的经历发生在一个高度占主导地位的男性文化中。绝大多数关于退伍军人的研究反映了男性的经历和需求。女性退伍军人的经历，因此，他们的过渡支持需求，基本上是看不见的。这项研究旨在了解在占主导地位的男性文化背景下，性别对退伍军人服兵役和过渡到平民生活的经历的作用和影响。对22名澳大利亚女性退伍军人的深入定性采访引发了四个主题：（1）与军队保持管理身份；（2）在符合男性文化证明价值方面的基于性别的挑战，同化,和该文化中的生存策略；（3）女性的价值低于男性-对女性退伍军人的后果，包括厌女症,性骚扰和性侵犯,和系统未能认识到妇女的特定健康需求和作为母亲的角色;和（4）分离和过渡：作为平民世界中的女性退伍军人而看不见。性别化的军事经历会对女性退伍军人的身心健康产生长期负面影响，关系,和身份，由于普遍的男性化文化，他们仍然很大程度上看不见。这可能会在为退伍军人服务期间提供服务和支持方面造成重大的基于性别的障碍，这也可能阻碍他们的过渡支持需求。
