Thursday, March 1, 2012

Fed: ADF taking action over declining numbers of women

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Fed: ADF taking action over declining numbers of women

CANBERRA, Jan 13 AAP - The Australian government said today it was taking action toaddress a report which found women were quitting the armed forces at alarming rates.

The report, titled Defence Personnel Environment Scan 2020, found the number of womenin the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had dropped by 15 per cent in the past five years,the Sun Herald said today.

The largest fall was in the RAAF, where almost 25 per cent of women had quit since1995, followed by the navy, with 16 per cent of female personnel quitting in the pastfive years and the army, which lost seven per cent of …

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