I want to speak to the professional and social exclusion that women in the military have experienced that then carries over into their transition to civilian life. One thing we did at Queen's was to organize veteran transition workshops tailored to women, in which not only was the agenda of the workshops co-developed with women veterans, but also that our objective in hosting these workshops was to create a peer support network so that women would be able to meet other women with similar experiences and break that cycle of social exclusion they had experienced while in the military, and most likely while transitioning. Hosting these veteran-focused workshops was one way we could translate the research we do in a university setting in support of a community of women veterans. We had fairly localized workshops with women from Ottawa, Kingston and the nearby region.
On November 9th, 2023. See this statement in context.