Female service members and veterans were 10 times more likely than their male counterparts to answer that they faced or witnessed gender discrimination…in the military, according to an online poll of 1,708 Stars and Stripes digital subscribers around the world.

Of those who answered the question, 68.5 percent of women who serve or served in the military said they had experienced discrimination based on gender, compared to 6.4 percent of the men.

The anonymous online poll, conducted by Smithsonian magazine in partnership with Stars and Stripes and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, was based on an email invitation to 21,364 subscribers, so the findings are not a random sampling. Among those who answered were 109 active-duty service members and 922 veterans from all branches. An additional 676 civilians, including 203 military spouses, participated in the survey but were not included in questions relating to direct military service. One person did not identify personal gender details. Women — and one fluid-gender respondent — comprised a smaller subsample of the respondents, raising the margin of error in those results from plus or minus 3 percent for the overall poll to nearly 11 percent, according to the report, compiled by a team at George Mason led by political scientist Delton Daigle. (Source: Stripes.com)