Abstract
Abstract The inclusion of women in the Border Security Force (BSF) has foregrounded several long-standing concerns around adequate infrastructures, professional development, and soldiers’ welfare, as well as raised important issues about the BSF’s functional effectiveness and gender equality in the future. This chapter draws on ethnographic research with members of the BSF to examine the inclusion of women in the BSF, why it was considered necessary, how it affects the institution, and what kinds of internal institutional debates and material conditions of work impact the recruitment, deployment, and integration of women in the BSF. Emphasizing the importance of connecting questions of gender equality with broader issues of labor and welfare for all soldiers in the Force, the chapter concludes with critical reflections on the transformative potential of this policy for shifting patriarchal military culture inside and outside security institutions.
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