{"id":17492,"date":"2021-02-08T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=17492"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:32:32","slug":"gender-ratio-in-the-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=17492","title":{"rendered":"Gender Ratio in the Armed Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Defence<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 500;\">Gender Ratio in the Armed Forces<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of men and women employed in the three armed forces are as under:<\/p>\n<table style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Men<\/td>\n<td>Women<\/td>\n<td>% Women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indian Army<\/td>\n<td>1218036<\/td>\n<td>6807<\/td>\n<td>0.56%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indian Air Force*<\/td>\n<td>146727<\/td>\n<td>1607<\/td>\n<td>1.08%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indian Navy<\/td>\n<td>10108<\/td>\n<td>704 #<\/td>\n<td>6.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Excluding Medical and Dental personnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"># Figures are in respect of Women officers only as women are inducted at officer level presently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been an increase in the number of women personnel in the armed forces (excluding Medical, Dental and Nursing cadres) during the year 2020 compared to the figures in the year 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the provision of Permanent Commission to Women Officers in Judge Advocate General and Army Education Corps, the Government of India has recently announced grant of Permanent Commission to Women Officers in all other Arms\/ Services in which they are eligible for commission.\u00a0 Further, the Government of India has sanctioned 1700 women in Military Police Corps in a phased manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Air Force (IAF) undertakes various induction publicity measures to encourage youth including women to join IAF.\u00a0 Modules like direct contact programme, print and electronic media is extensively used to create awareness about IAF and educate students about various mode of entries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women are employed as officers in Indian Navy since 1992 wherein only three avenues were available to Women viz. Law, Education and Logistics. However, over a period of time, number of other avenues has been opened for Women induction as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<table style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Year<\/td>\n<td>Avenue available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992<\/td>\n<td>Law, Education, Logistics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>Naval Constructor Cadre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008<\/td>\n<td>Observer Specialisation (Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td>Pilots (Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<td>Naval Armament Inspectorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2019<\/td>\n<td>Sports and Musician Cadres, and Lateral Induction into Provost Specialisation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This information was tabled in a written reply by Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Shripad Naik to a question asked by Dr Fauzia Khan in Rajya Sabha today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence Gender Ratio in the Armed Forces The number of men and women employed in the three armed forces are as under: &nbsp; Men Women % Women Indian Army 1218036 6807 0.56% Indian Air Force* 146727 1607 1.08% Indian Navy 10108 704 # 6.5% * Excluding Medical and Dental personnel. # Figures are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17494,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions\/17494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}