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Volume 7, Issue 2
1 February 1987
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Review Article| February 01 1987

SEX ROLES AND PARTICIPATION IN MILITARY AND DEFENSE: OUTLINING SWISS WOMEN'S ATTITUDES AND VALUES TOWARDS MILITARISM, CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACE Available to Purchase

Isidor Wallimann
Isidor Wallimann
School of Social Work, Thiersteineralle 57, 4053 Basel, and Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6720
Print ISSN: 0144-333X
© MCB UP Limited
1987
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (1987) 7 (2): 68–79.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013039

The author is interested in variations by age in women's attitudes to the military and defence and support for women's participation in the military. Analysis of public opinion data suggests that women in Switzerland have substantial and consistently non‐militaristic leanings which the author seeks to explain.

Keywords:
Armed forces, Conflict, Switzerland, Women
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