Učešće žena u oružanim snagama savremenog doba
Participation of Women in Modern Armed Forces

Summary/Abstract: The article exposes the expanded participation of women in modern armed forces. It is noted that since women started in the seventies to enter the army with full military, professional status, the historical pattern of masculine exclusivity of armed forces was challenged. This process was treated as even more profound transformation since the introduction of nuclear weapons, while sceptics doubt in it as potentially dangerous for national defense. There is presented the history of women’s participation in the armed forces of the twentieth century world wars, as well as the individual experiences of countries with prominent proportion of women in the composition of their armed forces, namely the United States of American, Swedish and Israeli experience. It is noted that women in the composition of the armed forces of contemporary world are no longer just a temporary change. In spite of the fact that sometimes they still suffer the unequal soldier status, and in spite of still somewhere existing professional segregation and cultural discrimination, women are no longer peripheral to the military organization since their role is increasingly widening, until the abolition of the last bans of participation of women in combat.

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