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Women in the SAF - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Israel, a country which mandates conscription for both males and females have a birth rate of 20 births per 1000 people
      - Singapore has a birth rate of 8 births per 1000 people
  - - - Build active engagement in the ongoing total defence of the nation
    - - The silver tsunami advancing our way, needs an interpretation of Total Defence which involves our young women being trained to counter this threat, while being psychologically prepared to also undergo military training in a more distant future should the military need become a necessity.
- - - - Female conscription also meets the requirement of equity, where now, both females and males can contribute to the national defence of the nation.
      - Possibility of female conscription in non-military roles such as healthcare and social roles.
  - - - Female conscription as meeting the critical need of the declining sized fighting force
- - - - Identify specific outreach platforms that have been most effective in reaching out to women
    - - Gain a better understanding of the profile of women who apply for an SAF career
      - Study found that most servicewomen who joined the SAF over the past 10 years have mostly been from Sports and Uniformed Groups
      - Servicewomen were more likely to have a family member in the SAF than male servicemen
    - - Identify effective approaches/ activities that may engage students and create higher awareness for them to consider joining SAF
  - - - Working on a pre-BMT orientation program to prepare servicewomen for military training
      - Explore providing information on military career targeted at parents at recruitment seminars (80% of servicewomen spoke to their friends and family on their decision to join)
    - - Review Key Choke Points (IPPT/ medical) on recruitment process for women
    - - Tapping onto existing career sharing sessions with schools to raise awareness of the range of schemes and nature of career by sending speakers that are from the MDES scheme/WOSpec scheme (Enhance awareness for STEM students)
      - Increase advertising of SAF as a career on social media
      - Increase presence of female ambassadors at women career events for better engagements
      - Recruitment efforts can be targeted towards schools with better engagement rates
      - Working with HQ NCC to identify initiatives that will strengthen women recruitment