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14-10-2014, 09:40 PM
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This morning the Parliament adopts amendments to legislation to impose public service in Norway.

This means that girls born in 1997 or later military service from next year.

Just a year ago, there was great doubt and disagreement in the biggest parties on the introduction of universal military service. Prime Minister Erna Solberg was one of many skeptics.

But internal debates and pressure changed the picture: When conscription for women was passed by Parliament in June 2013, voted against the Christian Democratic Party.

They will do today too.

- It is in the interests of equality, says party leader Knut Arild Hareide VG.

- We fear that more duty and coercion in relation to the girls will lead to less equality, he said. Parliament treatment today is about necessary changes in the Military Service Act and the Home Guard Act that required to introduce universal military service.

Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide think today's vote is a milestone both for the military and society:

- Now we can choose the best and most motivated among both sexes. It will strengthen the Armed expertise, she says to VG.

She believes there are many reasons why the defense now has attracted so few women.

- Now it is important to make the defense of an attractive career path for women too. We must translate military service to civilian jobs as well, even though we want to keep as many as possible in the military, she explains.

After today's decision, the first conscripts women meet for service in the summer of 2016.

Previously, women who have become familiar service skilled in session and was called to military service, had the opportunity to opt out of the current assignment. It will no longer be possible.

Women who have already chosen to apply to the Norwegian Armed Forces, have experienced challenges: 23 percent of female soldiers reported in 2013 that they were subjected to unwanted attention of a sexual nature.

In 2010, reported 20.3 percent of girls in the big Conscription survey, that they had been subjected to sexual harassment. In 2012 the figure was 22 percent, while in 2013 said 23 per cent of the girls that they experienced unwanted sexual attention.


ZERO TOLERANCE: Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide has zero tolerance for sexual harassment in the military. Here she is at the NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
ZERO TOLERANCE: Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide has zero tolerance for sexual harassment in the military. Here she is at the NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Photo: RUNE THOMAS EGE, VG
Earlier this year to Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide (H) respond to the government's views on the issue in Parliament.

- My clear message is that there is zero tolerance for sexual harassment in the military, said Søreide VG then.

Every fifth woman who leaves the military, do so because of bullying or sexual harassment, according to figures from the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).

Armed own employee surveys show that three times as many women in the military experience unwanted sexual attention at work otherwise. Young women in military service are most at risk, according to a report from SINTEF in 2012.

Frank Brundtland Places FFI leader surveys and research that follows cohorts of session. He believes the military has many challenges to keep the women recruited. He is unsure of the gender-related issues will change as a result of gender-neutral military service.

- This is more of a well-meant political commitment than a decision based on the impact analysis and research, he told NTB just before conscription for women was passed last summer.

Bullying often assume that people excluded from society.

- There is no one like history, but the common denominator is that many feel that they are "ostracized from the community" as a result of circumstances related to their gender, says Sites.

He fears that the result of gender-neutral military service may be less motivated cohort.

- Today you choose mostly out the most motivated to serve in the military. When the goal is to increase the proportion of women by introducing gender-neutral military service, this can lead to taking in more unmotivated girls and boys. Ultimately, this will undermine the quality of the soldiers, he said.


FEMALE SOLDIER: Solbjørg (upright terrain vehicle with machine guns) franchise rose field as a soldier in the Telemark Battalion in Mazar-e-Sharif in 2006

FEMALE SOLDIER: Solbjørg (upright terrain vehicle with machine guns) franchise rose field as a soldier in the Telemark Battalion in Mazar-e-Sharif in 2006.
Photo: HARALD HENDEN, VG
Lieutenant Colonel Jon Terje cleanup at military base at Rygge says to NRK that he thinks it is time that conscription for women introduced.

- Now we are allowed to use the very best of Norwegian youth to create soldiers to take care of the charge and not just the best guys, he says.

Cleanup believes that troubled girls have nothing to be afraid of.

- There are many opportunities within it to serve in the military today. We have become so high tech that there are opportunities for those who do not necessarily want to run around in the woods and deep snow with machine guns, says cleanup to NRK .

- I think when the defense can show what we are made of preparations and the opportunities girls on an equal footing with the boys, so I think it's going to remove some of the uncertainty that the first baby boomers reach safely go around and feel of.

Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide wrote in an article in VG earlier this year that universal military service is essential:

"General conscription is necessary for the defense will be better in line with the society it is part of. For what logical arguments there today that the duty to protect the country's sovereignty and independence should be reserved for men? Conscription is a key part of the social contract between the state and all its citizens, not just one half. "

She also stressed that although conscription is the duty does not mean that all 19 year olds should be in service:

Today, approximately 10,000 out of a cohort of 60 000 summoned to military service. And there will be no more, even if we introduce conscription for women. In the current situation, not military needs more than these 10,000, but we need more of them are women, wrote the Minister of Defence.

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