Does age matter? Most likely to volunteer, according to the survey, were people ages The lowest volunteer rates were seen among ages There are reasons why volunteering seems to be more prevalent among certain age groups, says Dr. Mark Snyder, a professor at the University of Minnesota, who has researched the psychology of volunteerism for years. When it comes to younger people, Snyder says career goals usually outweigh desires to volunteer.
Who volunteers more, men or women? Between men and women, the survey leaned toward more women. Women out-volunteered men Champions for Change. Until the end of the 20th century, there was a huge volunteerism gender gap, Snyder says. Women volunteered much more than men.
Surprisingly, as "women have entered the workforce in larger numbers, their rates have not gone down," Snyder says. The reason for this is more men have seen more women in the workforce who are somehow able to do it all — to work, to volunteer, to be actively engaged with their families. Men feel, 'Well, I've got to keep up. Race and ethnicity. Watching scenes of the chaotic evacuation of Americans and some of their Afghan allies from Kabul, those who served in the Hindu Kush — one of us included — are inevitably experiencing painful and clashing emotions of anger, loss, grief, and resentment.
They face an existential question about their service: Why did I sacrifice years of my life and lose friends in a war that essentially ended up where it began, with Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban? That angst will be compounded by a deep sense that the humiliating departure from Afghanistan — nearly the worst imaginable way to leave — represented a violation, an abandonment even, of the deepest ethos instilled among those who serve in uniform.
All of the U. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. An untold number of military servicemembers have been killed and wounded fulfilling that specific commitment to their brothers and sisters in arms during the past 20 years. Yet the chaotic bumbling of the last days of the Afghanistan War undercut every aspect of this ethos.
Many servicemembers now believe that the nation violated that bedrock principle by leaving behind to Americans and tens or even hundreds of thousands of Afghans who supported the United States at great personal risk over the last 20 years. Ad hoc veteran and military efforts to help get those people out in the last weeks of the U.
Military leaders at all levels are going to have to confront these issues — for themselves and for their troops. But it is not sufficient to sustain a strong all-volunteer force into the future. Unlike the U. The failures of the war, and the policies that led to them, do not in any way diminish the fact that every single person who served in the war volunteered to fight when there was no obligation to do so.
That choice, and the profound consequences it would have for those who stepped forward, shielded the rest of us from the painful experiences of war. Institutionally, the U.
First, it has both a moral and a practical obligation to dissect what went wrong during the 20 years of war and to demonstrate that it has processed and learned from those hard lessons. See table 1. Total Annual Hours Spent Volunteering Volunteers spent a median of 52 hours on volunteer activities during the period from September to September Time spent on volunteer activities was similar for men 52 hours and women 50 hours.
Among those who volunteered, median annual hours spent on volunteer activities ranged from a high of 94 hours for those age 65 and over to a low of 36 hours for those under 35 years old. See table 2. Number and Type of Organizations Most volunteers were involved with either one or two organizations Individuals with higher educational attainment were more likely to volunteer for multiple organizations than were those with less education.
See table 3. In , the main organization--the organization for which the volunteer worked the most hours during the year--was most frequently religious Another See table 4. Older volunteers were more likely to volunteer mainly for religious organizations than were younger volunteers. Of volunteers age 65 and over, Across all levels of educational attainment, volunteers were most likely to volunteer for religious organizations, followed by education or youth service organizations.
Volunteering mainly for religious organizations decreased as education increased, from Volunteering primarily for educational or youth service organizations increased with educational attainment; Among volunteers with children under age 18, Volunteers without children under age 18 were more likely than parents to volunteer for most other types of organizations.
Main Volunteer Activity for Main Organization Collecting, preparing, distributing, or serving food was the activity volunteers performed most often for their main organization in Other activities performed frequently were tutoring or teaching 9. However, main activities differed among men and women.
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