In 2017, neighboring Sweden instituted a military draft for both men and women after its government spoke of a deteriorating security environment in Europe. Norway introduced its own law applying ...

Norway voted to extend conscription to women in 2013. It was introduced in 2016. In Sweden, conscription was suspended in 2010 but reintroduced for both genders in 2017.

Norway, for example, was the first European country to implement mandatory military service for women, while Israel has women actively participating in combat roles, including piloting advanced ...

Women volunteers make up roughly a quarter of 2024’s cohort. “Some will probably be very disappointed being chosen to go into the military,” Anne Sofie, part of Katrine’s cohort of ...