Co-ordinator: Prof. Dr. Marina Nuciari,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Papers presented at the 10th ERGOMAS conference in Stockholm, June 22-26, 2009.
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• Gerhard Kümmel ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Sozialwissenschaftliche Institut der Bundeswehr, SOWI, Germany). Sex in the Military: The German Case.
• Anders W. Berggren ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Swedish National Defence College, Sweden). Sexual Harassment in the Swedish Armed Forces 1999-2005
• Armando X. Estrada ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (WSUV - Psychology, Vancouver, Canada). Antecedents and Consequences of Sexual Harassment, Discrimination in the Swedish Armed Forces 1999-2005
• Sophia Ivarsson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) & Lena Pettersson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Swedish National Defence College, Sweden). Recruiting women into the Swedish Armed Forces - a single objective and a method of achieving policy aims in the areas of security, development, defence and equality
• Helena Carreiras ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, Portugal). Public attitudes towards women in the military: The Portuguese case in comparative perspective
• Karen D. Davis ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Canadian Forces Leadership Institute, Canada). Public Discourse and the Warrior Paradigm: Canadian Casualties of Afghanistan, 2006
• Patricia M. Shields ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Texas State University, San Marcos, USA). Hidden in Plain Sight: Women's Contribution to Military and Societal Transformation.
• Donna Winslow ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Centre on Governance University of Ottawa, Office of the Auditor General of Canada). Gender Mainstreaming: Lessons for Diversity.

After a notification in the newsletter before the ERGOMAS Prague conference, a new WG on Women in the Military in Europe has been formally proposed and established. The WG is co-ordinated by Prof. Marina Nuciari, Turin University . Its first presentation was within a special panel at the ERGOMAS conference in Prague in the year 2000, with the presentation of the research topic by the WG Co-ordinator. The WG has continued its works in panels at 2002 and 2004 Ergomas Conferences in Portoroz ( Slovenia ) and in Paris.

The WG has been thought since its beginning as a permanent Forum where topics about gender-related situations regarding servicewomen could be raised, discussed in panels during Ergomas conferences, and possibly made objects of comparative researches and publications according to members' interests and will. The general idea is that comparative research, which is since ever the essence of Ergomas WGs, can be conducted as a consequence of topics proper discussion, adequate theoretical agreement and practical research opportunities. Presentations of volumes and essays on the topic can also be part of special panels.

The scope is very wide and it can touch topics such as women accession and integration into the military, career advancement and shortcomings, professional orientations, career-family trade-offs, buddy relationships in combat and non-combat environments, sexuality and affection in the workplace, gender discrimination and role segregation, sexual harassment, women soldiers' roles and different functions with special reference to international and intercultural missions.