Spouses of service members are effectively on call to the military.

Evidence

Whether or not a service member is deployed, spouses bear much of the psychological and social burden of having a partner in an unusually stressful and all-consuming career. As the base expert Catherine Lutz explains, spouses, like the troops themselves, “are effectively on call to the military.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 457

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• About 95 percent of military spouses abroad are female (similarity 0.85)
• Military spouses face 25 percent unemployment and 60 percent lower pay. (similarity 0.83)
• Military spouse hierarchies mirror their husbands’ command structures. (similarity 0.81)
• Base community life depends on unpaid spouse labor under subtle coercion (similarity 0.81)
• Officers’ wives face informal duties that can affect their husbands’ careers (similarity 0.79)
• Officer spouses face career-linked pressure to perform unpaid community labor. (similarity 0.79)
• Spouses do unpaid community-building labor under pressure that may affect partners’ reviews (similarity 0.78)