The Armed Forces (one of the biggest employers in Denmark with 22,000 employees) want to prioritize hiring women and people with a different background than Danish

Currently, 18.4% of the employees are female and under 4% have an international background. To encourage applicants from such backgrounds, they plan to organize prayer rooms and make female hygiene products freely available in the barracks. 

• As part of the strategy, the hiring committees will be diverse and the language used in promotion will be gender-neutral. 
• The principle of “tiebreak” will be introduced, where if there are two equally qualified candidates, priority will be given to the underrepresented category. 
• The new recruitment strategy still needs to be approved by the Ministry of Defense.