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December 09, 2007

Military women in Norway face serious difficulties

Aftenposten is featuring a series on the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in the Norwegian military. It turns out that the Norwegian defense has few to none mechanisms for detecting, reporting, or dealing with this sort of thing. Aftenposten is profiling one service woman - "Private 7" - who has presumably had awful experiences.

So bad is the situation that the military does not even have the means to track incidents that have been reported to (civilian) law enforcement authorities.

As a side but probably related note, the Norwegian military has failed to meet the goal of having 10% of its force be women by 2000 - the number is 6-7%. The goal now is 20% by 2020.

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