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Podcast: BFBS Sitrep
Episode: Extra – The world’s only female Chief of Defence Staff
Description: Every single country in the world allows women to serve in at least some military roles, but only one has a woman at the very top of its Armed Forces.Jamaica’s Chief of Defence Staff, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss-Gorman, was appointed in 2022 and is only the second woman in history to hold such a role (Slovenia appointed a female chief of defence for two years in 2018).Rear Admiral Wemyss-Gorman talks to Kate Gerbeau about her rise through the ranks across three decades, how male military leaders around the world react to her, and how th...