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Denmark to conscript women into armed forces for first time (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 8 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A (de facto) lottery was what made Germany suspend conscription because only pulling in a fraction of each cohort was considered a breach of equality.

[–] Oiconomia@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

Yep, I was one of only roughly 15% of men in my cohort that had to do conscription or civilian service after leaving high school. The rest did gap years or did go to university directly. This was generally considered to be unfair. This is why now a "Allgemeine Dienstpflicht" is discussed by politicians, where everyone has to do some service to society for a year, but can freely decide whether it is military os civilian service.