Security: still a male career?

Minister, you're new to the job.

What can you bring

on that front to the role?

I've been sitting together

with the other Defence Ministers.

We are only

a few women in the room.

At least I can say I laugh

much louder than most of the men.

To be honest,

I think it's important that we consider

how to have the civilian part

cooperating with the military part

and that's one of the things I put into

the table. And I think it's looking...

having the holistic approach is

maybe a female approach to things.

There are not many women

Ministers of Defence in the world

but I can tell you that I have felt

all the time since the first day

as another colleague in NATO,

in European Union

and also in the Ministry of Defence.

Minister Faremo, you worked in both

the private and the public sector.

Which one has actually made greater

advances in representing women?

Many people ask me

that question and I would say

women are fairly

well distributed in both.

And you could also

add the political sector.

But in either sector, you don't find

many women at the top.

Political parties,

they actually face that challenge

by introducing in Norway quotas.

We know we have to push

for having better public policies

that can help professional women.

We are having, for instance me,

as Minister of Defence,

exactly the same problems

that are having any other women

that are also professional women.

And we need policies that help us

to be mother and professionals.

My difficulties are the same

difficulties than any other woman.

So, very difficult sometimes, which

is a professional woman's, I mean,

the 24 hours of a 24 hours job.

Flying abroad three or four days.

At the school, they always call mum,

they never call the father.

These meetings hours and hours and

hours, that women would never do.

We know that time is gold.

It's important for any job, for any job,

if you are a man, if you are a woman,

to have a full life.

So to be able to make compatible

professional life and private life.