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Canada's top female military officer prepares to hang up her highly decorated uniform

from Globe and Mail

Canada's top female military officer prepares to hang up her highly decorated uniform Globe and Mail Christine Whitecross, the three-star lieutenant-general who is Canada’s top-ranking female military officer, doesn’t want to be remembered mainly as a lifelong champion of women’s equality in the armed forces. But there is little doubt she did more than anyone to break the glass ceiling for her female colleagues. Lt.-Gen. Whitecross, commandant of the NATO Defence College (NDC) in Rome, leaves the college on July 18 and goes into retirement in Canada, where she inspired a small army of young women to join the military and rise through the ranks in the hope, as she put it, “that many more talented women would follow close behind.” READ MORE

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