Call of Duty Endowment highlights struggle of women veterans in finding jobs
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The Call of Duty Endowment and Activision Blizzard are announcing this year’s in-game fundraiser and continuing efforts to advocate for veterans through a new policy paper on female veterans’ employment.
To celebrate Military Appreciation Month, the Loot for Good in-game charity campaign will be available within the popular DMZ mode of Call of Duty: Warzone 2 battle royale game.
The data from the policy paper found that female vets, despite tending to be more educated than their male counterparts, have a much harder time finding a civilian job and are underrepresented in the workforce. Women are more than twice as likely to be unemployed six months after completing their service than male veterans. This stands in stark contrast to their growing importance for national defense, said Dan Goldenberg, executive director of the Call of Duty Endowment and vice president of corporate social responsibility at Activision Blizzard, in an interview with GamesBeat.
“For Military Appreciation Month, we always try and do something special. The theme of what we’re doing this month is around women veterans,” Goldenberg said. “We found out they’re more than twice as likely to be unemployed as male vets, six months after their service. And if you’re a woman veteran of color, it is more likely you are three times as likely to be unemployed as the male veteran. We wanted to dig into this. These women are super qualified yet they seem to be really undervalued on the job market.”
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