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Want to really achieve something? Make a difference?
Whatever your background or level of qualifications, today’s Army offers women more varied and exciting opportunities than ever before – with competitive salaries and regular promotions.

What you can do
Signaller, clerk, medic, driver, logistician, nurse… the list goes on.

The fact is that MOST jobs in the Army are open to women as well as men – either full-time, as a Regular soldier, or part-time with the Territorial Army (TA).

You could train to use sophisticated communication systems in the Royal Signals. You could gain a trade and useful qualifications in the Royal Engineers. You might prefer to further your skills in a medical or admin role. Or work with heavyweight equipment in an active role with the Royal Artillery.

Whatever you want to achieve, you’ll train in a supportive environment and become part of a great team based on trust and mutual respect.

Women in the Armed Forces

History of Women in the British Armed Forces

Women have played a vital role in the Armed Forces since at least the Second World War, when they were employed in a wide variety of roles, many of which exposed them to extreme danger.

After the War, it was recognised that women continued to have an important role to play in the Armed forces, and the “Women’s Services” were permanently established.

The early 1990s saw the most dramatic peacetime changes in their duties, with women serving in surface ships, as aircrew for the first time, and also in a much greater range of posts in the Army.

Around the same time, women's roles were fully into the three main Service branches – the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force – and the separate Women’s Services were abolished (the Women’s Royal Air Force was never a separate Service, although the use of the term was discontinued).

Women during financial crisis are inclined to do more shopping and spend more money in order to rid themselves of depression associated with recession, suggest the findings of a new survey by British psychologists. The experts say that the recession could force more women to overspend or raise their risk of developing mental illness.

A survey, carried out by Karen Pine, Professor from the University of Hertfordshire and the author of Sheconomics, revealed that 79 per cent of women reported that they would go on a spending spree in order to cheer themselves up. Out of the 700 women who took part in the survey, 4 out of 10 (40 per cent) said that it was 'depression', and 6 out of 10 (60 per cent) named 'feeling a little bit low', to be the main reason for them to throw some cash on the clothes that they do not really need and spend extra money on.

Almost 50 per cent of the British ladies admitted that recession made them feel scared or even terrified, while 45 per cent said that their financial situation had taken a serious hit because of the recession and crisis in the economy. The survey also found that the three quarters of the women have already considered cutting back on spending money in the nearest future. But the overwhelming majority expressed the opinion that shopping has the power to make them feel much better.