Counselors Campus to Careers Toolkit

For career counselors who guide student veterans
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A woman veteran climbs a rock wall overlooking the ocean, illustrating the concept of facing a unique challenge

Women Veterans

Unique needs and challenges

What Do You Know?

Question 1:

Currently, 10% of new recruits to the military are women.
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Answer: False

Currently, 20% of new recruits to the military are women.

Question 2:

Women veterans have about the same types of disabilities as male veterans.
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Answer: False

Though their rate of disability is nearly the same as male veterans, women veterans have different types of disabilities than their male counterparts.

Question 3:

Women veterans have, on average, more education than either male veterans or civilians.
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Answer: True

About one-third of women veterans have completed a bachelor’s degree, a rate higher than male veterans and higher than either male or female nonveterans.

Question 4:

Women veterans are more likely than nonveteran women to be studying and working while being the primary caretaker of children.
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Answer: True

Women veterans are more likely than either male veterans or nonveteran women to be primary caretakers of dependent children.

Question 5:

There are coordinators and program managers who specialize in the issues faced by women veterans.
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Answer: True

VA regional health care and benefits services have specialists devoted to women veterans. A woman veteran can go to the Center for Women Veterans  to find a person who specializes in benefits and services for women veterans.

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