Editing Danish Defence (section)

===Women in the military===
[[File:First Danish Female Fighter Pilot Lt. Line Bonde with her T-38 Talon at Sheppard AFB, Texas.jpg|thumb|Lt. Line Bonde, the first female fighter pilot in the Royal Danish Air Force]]

Women in the military can be traced back to 1946, with the creation of ''Lottekorpset''. This corps allowed women to serve, however, without entering with the normal armed forces, and they were not allowed to carry weapons. In 1962, women were allowed in the military.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historisk tidslinje for ligebehandlings- og mangfoldighedstiltag i forsvaret |url=https://www2.forsvaret.dk/temaer/mangfoldighed/Documents/Historisk%20tidslinje%20for%20ligebehandlings%20og%20mangfoldighedstiltag%20i%20forsvaret.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001182318/https://www2.forsvaret.dk/temaer/mangfoldighed/Documents/Historisk%20tidslinje%20for%20ligebehandlings%20og%20mangfoldighedstiltag%20i%20forsvaret.pdf |archive-date=2018-10-01 |url-status=live |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=da}}</ref>

Currently 1,122 or 7.3% of all personnel in the armed forces are women.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Forsvarsministeriets Personalestyrelse |title=Kvinder i Forsvaret og Beredskabsstyrelsen |url=http://forpers.dk/hr/Pages/KvinderiForsvaret.aspx |website=forpers.dk |publisher=Danish Ministry of Defence |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=da |date=9 March 2018 |archive-date=1 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001182505/http://forpers.dk/hr/Pages/KvinderiForsvaret.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Women do not have to serve conscription in Denmark, since 1998, it is however possible to serve under conscription-like circumstances; 17% of those serving conscription or conscription-like are women.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Forsvarsministeriets Personalestyrelse |title=Værnepligtige i Forsvaret og Beredskabsstyrelsen |url=http://forpers.dk/hr/Pages/Vaernepligtige.aspx |website=forpers.dk |publisher=Danish Ministry of Defence |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=da |date=25 January 2018 |archive-date=23 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123054025/http://forpers.dk/hr/Pages/Vaernepligtige.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Between 1991 and 31 December 2017, 1,965 women have been deployed to different international missions.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Forsvarsministeriets Personalestyrelse |title=Udsendte |url=http://forpers.dk/hr/Pages/Udsendte.aspx |website=forpers.dk |publisher=Danish Ministry of Defence |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=da |date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=1 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001182608/http://forpers.dk/hr/Pages/Udsendte.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Of those 3 women have lost their lives.<ref>{{cite web |title=Danske militære tab i international tjeneste |url=http://www.fns-naestved.dk/Danske%20tab.htm |website=fns-naestved.dk |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=da |date=31 May 2014}}</ref> In 1998, Police Constable Gitte Larsen was killed in [[Hebron]] on the [[West Bank]]. In 2003, ''Overkonstabel'' Susanne Lauritzen was killed in a traffic accident in [[Kosovo]]. In 2010, the first woman was killed in a combat situation, when ''Konstabel'' [[Sophia Bruun]] was killed by an IED in [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite web |title="Sophia var en rigtig husar" |url=https://jyllands-posten.dk/indland/article4336307.ece |website=jyllands-posten.dk |publisher=[[JP/Politikens Hus A/S]] |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=da |date=2 June 2010}}</ref>

In 2005, [[Line Bonde]] became the first female fighter pilot in Denmark.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brøndum|first1=Christian|title=First Female Fighter Pilot|url=https://www.b.dk/nationalt/foerste-kvindelige-jagerpilot-fedt-at-det-blev-mig|website=Berlingske|publisher=Berlingske Media|access-date=8 March 2018|date=6 July 2006}}</ref> In 2016, [[Lone Træholt]] became the first female general.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Johansen|first1=Michelle Birch|title=Denmark Gets its First Female General|url=http://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2016-09-30-historisk-danmark-har-faaet-sin-foerste-kvindelige-general|website=TV2.dk|publisher=TV2|access-date=7 October 2016|language=da}}</ref> She was the only female general in the Danish armed forces until the army promoted [[Jette Albinus]] to the rank of brigadier general on 11 September 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nyheder.tv2.dk/lokalt/2017-09-11-haeren-har-faaet-sin-foerste-kvindelige-general|title=Hæren har fået sin første kvindelige general|publisher=TV2|date=11 September 2017|access-date=16 April 2018 |language=da}}</ref>
In May 2018, the [[Royal Life Guards (Denmark)|Royal Life Guards]] was forced to lower the height requirements for women, as the Danish Institute of Human Rights decided it was discrimination.<ref>{{cite web |author1=/ritzau/ |author-link1=Ritzau |title=Livgarden sænker højdekrav for kvindelige gardere |url=https://www.berlingske.dk/samfund/livgarden-saenker-hoejdekrav-for-kvindelige-gardere |website=berlingske.dk |publisher=Berlingske Media |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=da |date=18 May 2018}}</ref>