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Decline in number of women joining army

Indian Air Force has  recently commissioned three women fighter pilots for the very first time and have set a precedent. But thestory of women in the army does not look the same. In a shocking statistics, the number of women officers in the Army has declined by 50 per cent, in the last six years. Army had first started recruiting women in 1992, and in 2011 they have recruited 166 officers but in 2014 only 100 women have joined the army. In the current year the number of women officers has gone down to as low as 61.