Women in Army

People  always believed that all the tough professions and workplaces are meant only for men but we women proved them wrong with their skills and dedication.All wings of the Indian Armed Force allow women in combat roles (junior ranks) and combat supervisory roles (officers), except Indian Army (support roles only) and Special forces of India (trainer role only) (c. 2017). Indian Air Force had 8.5%, Indian Army 3% and Indian Navy 2.8% women (c. 2014).Females are not allowed to serve in combat units like the Infantry, the Armoured corps and Mechanised infantry (c. 2017).

In 1992, the Indian Army began inducting women officers in non-medical roles.On 19 January 2007, the United Nations first all female peacekeeping force made up of 105 Indian policewomen was deployed to Liberia.  Priya Jhingan, commissioned in 1993, is the one of the 25 women to join the Indian Army as an officer. Alka Khurana , also commissioned in 1993 ,is the first woman from Indian Army to participate in Republic Day Parade and Army Day Parade in 1994 . Priya Semwal, joined in 2014, first Army jawan's wife to join as an officer in the armed forces, whose husband had fallen in a counter-insurgency operation near hilly Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh in 2012.