{"id":2223,"date":"2013-02-04T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T18:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2013-02-04T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T18:12:08","slug":"women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/women-in-militaries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/women-in-militaries.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/women-in-militaries.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/women-in-militaries-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/women-in-militaries-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/women-in-militaries-500x246.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1250px) 100vw, 1250px\" \/><\/a>Women are not allowed to take part in front-line combat roles in most nations. According to the map shown above, published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/01\/25\/map-which-countries-allow-women-in-front-line-combat-roles\/\">Washington Post<\/a>, front-line combat positions for women are permitted mostly in western nations.<\/p>\n<p>Countries that formally allow women in combat positions (red) include: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Eritrea, Israel, North Korea, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, where the ban on women in front-line combat has been recently lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Countries where women are formally allowed in other major combat roles (orange), such as artillery and fighter pilots, include: the United Kingdom, Serbia, South Africa, Pakistan and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women are not allowed to take part in front-line combat roles in most nations. According to the map shown above, published by the Washington Post, front-line combat positions for women are permitted mostly in western nations. Countries that formally allow women in combat positions (red) include: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Women in Front-Line Combat Roles Worldwide' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/women-in-front-line-combat-roles-worldwide\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[346,32,37,454,527,14,30],"tags":[644,642,643,645,548,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}