Military advisers ensure that Canadian troops in Mali consider female perspectives when planning and conducting operations GlobePolitics
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One of her responsibilities was to ensure that patrol reports about troops’ interactions with Malian citizens included data to show whether local women were present. For instance, she said, if 400 local people attended an opening of a school, the report of that event should specify how many were female.
It is critical to consider the views of the female members of the forces, and of the female civilian population on the ground, Brigadier-General Lise Bourgon, the deputy chief of staff operations at Canadian Joint Operations Command, said in a telephone interview. Fourteen per cent of the Canadian troops and aircrew in Mali would be female, said Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan. That is actually 1 per cent lower than a UN target set for 2020, but significantly higher than other missions undertaken by Canada where, on average, just 4 per cent of deployed personnel are women.
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