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• Gunman Sabena was the first woman IAF officer to fly in a combat zone
during the Cagily war.
• It has been 88 years since women have been a part of the armed force
and still, just 5% military officers are women. This however indicates the
slow growth and less participation of women in armed forces.
• India is not one of the 25 countries that allow women to perform combat
roles.
• In the paramilitary forces, the central reserve police force consists of 5,928
women and tops the list while Indo-Tibetian Border Police has 1,091
women which make it stand at the bottom of the list.
• The Indian female unit also participates in the peace keeping missions of
UN. Around 125 Indian women are deployed in different areas like
Monrovia and Liberia under the United Nations Mission.
Conclusion :India is witnessing a pleasant scenario of women getting deployed in
armed forces. Although the annual growth in the number of women in armed forces
is slow, it is appreciable that India is making efforts to allow and empower female
candidates to join all the branches of Indian Armed forces.
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