Female Recruitment Failing

Most Canadian women surveyed, 77 percent, have never even thought of joining the military and consider the work unappealing and dangerous, says in-house Department of National Defence research. The military admits it will not meet its target to nearly double the proportion of women in the army, navy and air force: ‘There is discomfort with a profession that involves the potential of killing people, especially innocent people.’

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