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RE: Is it time to consider draft?

Comment comment by VnutZ on 11 August 2007

Glass ceiling limits upward advancement, are saying limit women's advancement?

An active selective service can be a significant detriment to a career. Sure, no employer is allowed to discriminate against an employee that is a reservist or such. And the law mandates that their job exists for them upon return. We've already seen with OIF that can be difficult for many returning home.

  • So, a hypothetically active selective service means that an equally qualified man and woman could apply for the same job with one opening. Again, in an active draft scenario, the employer should make an offer to the woman ... because the odds are against the man that he will hire someone that gets deployed and then not be allowed to fill the position while he's gone, thus losing money and business.
  • Now say he can hire two people and both the man and woman are employed. The man is drafted and goes to war. A promotion was due. Obviously, all things being equal, the woman should get the promotion because the position needs to be filled and the employer should not be penalized by the man's service. The man comes back and finds himself at his old job, one year less experience, etc.

If women are not subject to, or willing to be subject to, the same life/career threatening federal requirements that men are, then women should not argue for equality in the workplace. To me, that means top positions since that can be a direct consequence of lost work years due to military draft service.

Men face the following consequences for not registering:

  • $250,000 in fines and/or a prison term of up to five years
  • cannot qualify for Federal student loans or grant programs (includes but not limited to Pell, CWS, Guaranteed Student/Plus and National Direct Student loans).
  • as an immigrant, cannot attain citizenship with registering.
  • cannot receive federal vocational training (JTPA)
  • cannot be eligible for jobs in the Executive Branch of the government or Post Office
  • plus state and local laws

Women who don't register for the draft:

  • live and prosper normally!
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RE: Is it time to consider draft? by scottb :: NR7

I agree that if the draft is reinstated, women should be included. I don't much buy the argument that restoring the draft is what's necessary to "secure our country".

Let's face it, when our military was deployed to do the job it was meant to do, it did it and did it brilliantly, both in Desert Storm and in the 2003 invasion. But it's not intended to be a police force. This "wartime strain" is entirely because it's not a war - it's a shitty peace.

Now that all the candidates are talking about withdrawals (in various forms), the "strain" should be let up so the draft shouldn't be needed.

Posted 12 August 2007, Hide, Parent, Reply