By Paula Jaegar, Research Associate, U K Defence Forum
Why are so few women in the House of Commons actively interested in defence ?
And what difference would it make - to UK defence policy, the Armed Forces, and to their political careers - if they were?
According to Vacher Dod's parliamentary profiles, nine out of 125 female MPs - just over 7% - named defence as a political interest.
Of their 534 male counterparts, 94 (just over 17.5%) did.