Globalization, Gender, and Higher Education: Female Cadets at the Hellenic Military Academy, 1992-2011
Globalization, Gender, and Higher Education: Female Cadets at the Hellenic Military Academy, 1992-2011

Summary/Abstract: Is there a date signaling the beginning of a new era? As regards Europe, at least, a potential candidate is the year 1992 – the year of the Maastricht Treaty – which marked the beginning of EU’s expansion, thus investing the term “globalization” with a new meaning. But 1992 is also the year that marked a significant, symbolic change in the Hellenic Higher Education system: it is the year in which women were first permitted to join the Military Academy of Greece. My paper will therefore trace the trajectory of female cadets at the Hellenic Military Academy, focusing on the relation of gender to educational institutions that traditionally resist change (such as the Academies of the Armed Forces), and examining the extent to which the process of globalization has influenced both the cadets’ own perception of the role of the contemporary Army Officer, and the very notion of a “proper,” “feminine” career.

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