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>From next year military conscription in the Netherlands will also apply to
women, if the Dutch government has its way. This is a purely symbolic measure
for equal treatment as conscription was suspended in 1997,ANP reports.

Since 1997 every boy gets a letter at age 17 to say that he has reached
conscription age, though the letter does not oblige him to join the military.
>From next year girls will also get that letter.

Up until now the Ministry of Defense excluded women from conscription as they
were behind on the labor market. But according to Defense Minister Jeanine
Hennis-Plasschaert, women and men now have about equal education and training
levels and equal treatment outweighs balancing disadvantages.

簡單來說就是明年開始荷蘭女性也要接受徵兵，這是實現性別平權的措施。

荷蘭於1997起，所有年滿17歲的荷蘭男性都會收到徵兵的通知書，
但是，荷蘭政府一直以女性在勞動市場處於弱勢為理由，把女性排除在征兵對象之外。

雖然收到徵兵通知書並不會強迫女性去當兵，
此次政策的變化更多的是為了體現男女平等的象徵性意義。

（新聞連結：https://goo.gl/RpZAyQ）

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