Australian women at the front

Posted by Jenni Colwill on 17 September 2009 | 0 Comments

Tags: Australia explores new roles for female soldiers, women at the front, women soldiers

There has been quite a bit of chatter in the media recently because the Minister for Defence suggested that the current physical employment standards for the Australian Defence Forces might be changed in a couple of years time.

This would result in the removal of gender and age criteria from their recruitment processes. When and if this happens, women will be eligible for all categories of employment in the military, including jobs like working in tanks, and firing some heavy duty artillery.

Good. If a woman chooses to do jobs such as these, and is fit enough and strong enough to be selected, why not?

Can someone please just make sure that they are paid on an equal basis to the men doing the same work?

Okay?