Just one in 15 military personnel are female

Only one in 15 members of the Irish Defence Forces are women — less than half the number of women serving in the US military.

The latest figures for 2018 show there are 591 women in the Irish Defence Forces — making up 6.5% of the 9,057 personnel working in the army, naval service, and air corps.

While the army and navy averaged just under 7% when it came to female members, the air corps have less than one in 20 women, or just under 5% of women, in their ranks.