Easy description of role of the women in armed forces

1. WOMEN
IN
ARMED FORCES

2.  Introduction
 Historical perspective
 Issues involved
 Women in uniform: Global scan
 India’s women in armed forces
 Women’s role
 Conclusion
 Way forward

4. Queen Boadicea, Joan of
Arc of France and nearer home Razia Sultan, Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi, KitturChinnamma
Rani Durgawati of Gondwana, Chand bibi of Ahmednagar are good examples of women
fighters.
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6. WOMEN IN UNIFORM – GLOBAL SCAN
• The United States, Israel, North Korea, France, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and Canada
are among the global militaries that employ women in front-line combat positions.
 The United States is considered a pioneer and a trend-setter as regards induction of women
in the services.
 There are approximately 200,000 American women on active duty in the US armed forces.
They constitute nearly 20 percent of its strength.
 Germany has allowed women in combat since 2001, the year a European Court of Justice
ruled that preventing women from taking combat roles was against gender equality.
 In Israel Women have served in combat roles since 1995. Israel’s Security Service Law of
1949 makes military training obligatory for both men and women. However, most “close
combat positions” are still not open to women.

9. The nature of
Army as an
Institution
The nature of
combat itself

10. ISSUES INVOLVED IN INDUCTING WOMEN IN THE
FRONTLINES UNITS IN ARMED FORCES
• Physical Issues
• Physiological Issues
• Social issues
• Conventional Barriers
• Fear of sexual misconduct
• Battle of ‘Acceptance’
• Legal Issues

13. • Under the Short Service Commission (SSC) scheme, women are allowed
to enter Army Service Corps, Ordnance, Education Corps, Judge
Advocate General (JAG), Engineers, Signals, Intelligence and Electronics
& Mechanical Engineering branches of the Army.
• Only in certain streams like the Judge Advocate General, Army Education
Corps (AEC) and the Military Police, women are given permanent
commission at par with male officers.
• Unlike male officers who could have joined under the SSC scheme and
could have opted for a permanent scheme at the end of ten years,
women SSC officers did not have the same option.
• However, Prime Minister has announced on Independence Day in 2018,
that permanent commission would be granted to serving women officers
of the armed forces. It will change the career paths of more than 3,700
women officers in the three services.

16. Paramilitary forces of India