Meet The Highest Ranked Woman In The British Army

Brigadier Nicky Moffat: 'Women do not need to be treated with kid gloves.' Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian

Meet Nicky Moffat, The Highest Ranked Woman In The British Army -- The Guardian

Brigadier Nicky Moffat, the highest ranked woman in the British army, gives her first ever interview, and talks about not being a 'whinger' or playing 'the gender card'

Nicky Moffat is the highest ranked woman in the British army. She has excelled in all kinds of things during a near 30-year career that might still take her to the very top of the military.

But giving interviews is not one of them. In fact, this is her first – and there are certain things she wants to make absolutely clear.

She is not a "whinger", and she doesn't much like people who are. She has not played the "gender card". Now a brigadier, Moffat, 49, has obviously faced obstacles during her climb up the tree, but she refuses to call them obstacles.

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My Comment: She's only a Brigadier?