Jen Elliott
I’m a serving RAF officer, and have been in the RAF for over 17years. I have deployed and worked in war zones; yet the military in a whole is so bias towards being Male not a women. There have been several instances that stick out in particular: • The majority of the uniform is male, meaning it is ill fitting, uncomfortable but sometimes downright unsafe. • I was once at a formal ‘Burns Night’ themed black tie event, I invited my husband as my plus one. It was assumed that I was male and my plus one was female as he had a bouquet on his seat on arrival. • We have recently moved to a new military camp, where everyone spoke to my husband and asked what he did in the military, some ignored me, most spoke to my husband, assuming it was he who was military.