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Gender Issues: Improved Guidance and Oversight Are Needed to Ensure Validity and Equity of Fitness Standards

Gender Issues: Improved Guidance and Oversight Are Needed to Ensure Validity and Equity of Fitness Standards

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U.S. General Accounting Office (Washington, DC)

Published 1998. 49 pages.

Recommendations made in this report focus on two main issues: 1. personnel in the military be tested in all three areas cited in the existing regulations - cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and body composition; and 2. all service members, regardless of age, be tested for fitness. The report finds that adjustments for gender are inconsistent and sometimes arbitrary. Accession Number: 014828

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