Still a long way to go on the road to more women in the Armed Forces

Much scratching of heads and commissioning of studies has yet to produce a clear strategy as to how to find the magic formula to suddenly encourage the necessary waves of women to enlist.

Colonel Carla Harding speaks to the participants of the Women in Force program at Canadian Forces Base Borden, Ont., on August 14, 2017. The program gives women a chance to learn about military life before they decide to join. As Scott Taylor writes, the military is struggling to reach its self-imposed goal of 25 per cent female representation by 2026.DND photograph by Aviator Rachael Allen

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 12, 2020

OTTAWA—Those readers old enough to remember may recall an advertising campaign from the late ’60s promoting Virginia Slim cigarettes. The theme behind this series of television commercials and magazine ads was to illustrate just how far feminism had advanced throughout North American society. T...

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