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Germany wants you for the armed forces — especially if you’re a woman. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Cabinet adopted a series of measures this week to boost equal opportunity in the military.
The changes aim to align procedures in the Bundeswehr, Germany’s armed forces, with a recent strengthening of equal opportunity laws that apply to the government overall. The Bundeswehr needs people to fill its ranks, as part of Germany’s efforts to bolster its military capabilities in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“Women are still underrepresented in the Bundeswehr,” Steffen Hebestreit, the government spokesperson, told reporters on Wednesday.
Representation, going by the government definition, is when the share of women exceeds 20%. Defense officials want women to comprise at least half of the medical corps. On both counts, the Bundeswehr falls short: Women make up 9.5% and 45%, respectively, according to government figures.
Excluding civilian roles supporting the military, the Bundeswehr in all fields has around 180,000 troops. Almost 24,000 of them are women. Their share has increased, military figures show, as the overall force has shrunk since the end of the Cold War.
As the government sees it, putting more women in uniform “makes a contribution” to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Hebestreit said. “Empowerment of women and girls” is one pillar of the agenda, according to the UN.
Boosting female enlistment
The reforms focus primarily on pay, both while on active duty and in the reserves. They also look to improve support for childcare and care for elderly and sick family members.
If better pay and services alleviate women of the sort of unpaid domestic work they still tend to bear the brunt of, the government hopes it will create the opening, if not the incentive, to join the workforce. That includes working for the military.
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Germany is hardly unique on the issue of female soldiers. In most countries, including Germany’s closest allies, the military is “still a man’s world,” as a UK Parliament report put it in 2021.
At that point in time, women comprised 11% of the United Kingdom’s regular forces. That was an all-time high, according to the country’s defense ministry, but it failed to meet its own recruitment goal of 15%. That has been upped to 30% by 2030.
In the United States, where weeding out discrimination in the ranks has been a long struggle, more than 17% of active duty personnel were women in 2021, according to the US defense department. That is an upward trend.
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Earlier this month, President Joe Biden tapped Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the naval branch of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If Congress confirms her, she will become the first woman to join the country’s highest body of uniformed officers.
The Bundeswehr’s push for more women is not only a matter of equal opportunity. It dovetails with new demand for all-around improvements to Germany’s military capabilities.
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The military has the added burden of needing to attract young people, in particular, which means meeting the “expectations of the so-called ‘Generation Z,’ which wants a high degree of flexible and individual freedom in working life,” she added.
Those expectations are generally at odds with a military’s rigid hierarchy and command structure. This week’s adoption of stricter equal opportunity standards helps fulfill part of the Bundeswehr’s strategy to expand recruitment.
Another challenge the military shares with the private sector: workplace safety, especially for women. Sexual harassment lingers in the ranks. The Bundeswehr saw nearly 850 cases between 2018-2020, according to Terre des Hommes, a human rights organization.
Hey, it’s a mystery to me.
But I’m an evil bigot.
What the hell do I know?
I think penises should be put in vaginas.
I don’t know nothing about this utopia we’ve built.
People who tell women to join the army are the ones that actually hate women