Out Standing in the Field

✍ Scribed by Perron, Sandra

• Book ID: 110464902
• Publisher: Cormorant Books Inc.
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 329 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781770864948

✦ Synopsis

Some books are catalysts. _Shake Hands with the Devil __was one. For 2017, that book is _Out Standing in the Field __. In her memoir, Sandra Perron describes her experience of the Canadian Military - one of the most important institutions of our nation. What she has to say is exactly what the top brass has been paying lip-service to for years, and doing nothing to improve.In 2016, the Auditor General's Report noted that the military had no strategy to recruit women, even though they are required to meet a target that 25% of the uniformed personnel be women. According to Statistics Canada, 1,000 members of our military say they have been sexually assaulted in the past year.In her revealing and moving memoir, Sandra Perron, Canada's first female infantry officer and a member of the Royal 22e Régiment - the legendary "Van Doos" - describes her fight against a system of institutional sexism. Though repeatedly identified as top of her class throughout her training, she was...