The facility I’ve mostly discussed is mainly from my personal experiences working in Military Treatment Facilities or MTFs. The glass ceiling issue is an interesting one and perhaps a tricky one in describing its existence. I’ve worked in Army hospitals for 19 years and have had many women managers at the mid level and a couple at the highest level within the facility. It’s very difficult to say that there is a glass ceiling when these positions, which are few army wide, have often been field by women. After all the military is supposed to a merit based organization that prides itself on fairness and equality. Without knowing many of the inner workings at the highest of levels, it’s very difficult to dispute the notion that is no glass ceiling for women within the military and my facility. I can say that, in all my years in the medical field, the number of female RNs in the hospitals have greatly outnumbered the number of male RNs, but for some strange reason, I don’t recall ever seeing more than 2 females within the Hospital Command Administration. Those positions have always seemed to be male dominated, but again, I’m reluctant to throw it under the glass ceiling bus without any evidence to support. It is however, an interesting thought and something I never gave much thought of until now. There really isn’t to much of a need to reference the militarys past and how women had to work to gain respect and fair credit. It’s well documented. So in my career, I feel women have had an equal shake from where I’ve been able to see things. It’s not where it should be maybe so there is definitely room to