Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
800px-Dutch_submarine_Zeeleeuw
Dutch submarine the Zeeleeuw (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Björn Hamels Hfodf) - Credit: Dutch submarine the Zeeleeuw (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Björn Hamels Hfodf)
Dutch military
Hugo Ammerlaan
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert
male bastion
Ministry of Defense
submarine service
Monday, 11 May 2015 - 09:00
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Women to serve on Dutch submarines

The submarine service - one of the last male only services in the Dutch military - will soon also be opened to women. Women have never been able to work on the submarines. The thought was that the presence of women would lead to undesirable situations in such small spaces. But the Ministry of Defense has now changed its mind, AD reports. "No more discussion, it's going to happen", chief executive Hugo Ammerlaan said to the newspaper. "It is no longer of this time that we only admit men, we are just about the last country in the modern world that doesn't do it." Another reason for Defense to open the submarine service to women is a shortage of well qualified staff. Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said last year that she is in favor of this change. Now that the submarine service also allows women, the Marine Corps is the last male bastion within Defense.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • PvdA and GroenLinks in Brabant: only together in provincial government
  • Human trafficking near asylum seekers’ center in Gilze systematically not picked up
  • 20-year-old driver from Utrecht dies in car accident on A6
  • OM defends preventive arrests for demonstration on A12
  • Schiphol holds job fair, more than 1300 visitors expected
  • Millions of passport photos of innocent foreigners in police face database

Top stories

  • Hoekstra wants to reintroduce conscription
  • EU countries agree on new price cap for Russian oil
  • Hermitage shows Rembrandt and contemporaries from The Leiden Collection
  • Dutch police take down Exclu encrypted chat service with 42 arrests, €4 million seized
  • Signal failure briefly halts train traffic around A'dam; NS warns of significant delays
  • Matching medicine dosage to patient's DNA can cut side effects 30%: LUMC

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content