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Swiss to mull conscripting women

AFP
Thursday, Jan 16, 2025

GENEVA: Switzerland will explore making women do mandatory service in the army, considered one of the famously neutral Alpine nation´s founding pillars, the country´s first women defence minister said on Wednesday. Overseen by a few thousand professionals, the Swiss army´s conscripts do at least four months´ service before being called up repeatedly over the next decade for three-week training sessions.