Ladies Leading the Charge: Female Defence Ministers From All Around the Globe
Ladies Leading the Charge: Female Defence Ministers From All Around the Globe
Sputnik International
Some of these women lead the strongest armies in the world while others solve the problems of small countries, they are civil society activists, career-makers... 16.02.2019, Sputnik International
Some of these women lead the strongest armies in the world while others solve the problems of small countries, they are civil society activists, career-makers, and soldiers who have experienced war themselves.
The issue of gender equality is spreading around the globe at ever-increasing pace, encompassing more and more areas in society. Today, we take a look at how women have entered one of the last male bastions — the defence of the fatherland. Europe is in the lead with a record number of 9 female defence ministers.
French Defence Minister Florence Parly appears in the window of a French Air Force Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) during an inauguration ceremony at the Istres military base, southern France, on 19 October 2018.
Dutch Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert talks to a Dutch soldier after a NATO Response Force (NRF) exercise in Zagan, southwest Poland on 18 June 2015.
Spanish Minister of Defence Margarita Robles (L) talks with King of Spain Felipe VI (R) during a meeting of the North Atlantic Alliance at NATO headquarters in Brussels on 21 November 2018.
Minister of Defenсe Radmila Sekerinska (L) looks on during a meeting with Secretary of Defenсe Jim Mattis at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on 1 May 2018.
Spanish Minister of Defence Maria Dolores de Cospedal arrives to take part to the first Council of Ministers of Spain's new government at La Moncloa Palace in Madrid on 4 November 2016.
French Defence Minister Michele Alliot Marie speaks to French soldiers as they wait to board a plane to Lebanon at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport, north of Paris, 12 September 2006.
German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, right, is accompanied by an unidentified German soldier after her arrival in Azraq air base in northern Jordan Saturday, 13 January 2018.
German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (L) and Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti share a laugh ahead of an EU foreign affairs and defence meeting at the European Council, in Brussels on 14 November 2016.
Japan's first female Defence Minister Yuriko Koike (L, black suits) reacts to a salute from officers as she inspects a Japanese Maritime Defence Force naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo, 9 July 2007. Koike replaced former Defence chief Fumio Kyuma after his saying the 1945 nuclear attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima "couldn't be helped".
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